2017.01, Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2010.06, B.S. in Physics, Wuhan University

2021.10 – present, Tenure-track Professor, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology
2017.02 – 2021.09, Postdoctoral Research Associate, JILA, University of Colorado Boulder
2012.09 – 2013.11, Exchange PhD Student, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

- Electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics of quantum materials
- Tools: Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES); Time-resolved ARPES

Selected publications: (*: Corresponding, †: Equal contribution)

1. Yigui Zhong†, Jinjin Liu†, Xianxin Wu†, Zurab Guguchia, J.-X. Yin, Akifumi Mine, Yongkai Li, Sahand Najafzadeh, Debarchan Das, Charles Mielke III, Rustem Khasanov, Hubertus Luetkens, Takeshi Suzuki, Kecheng Liu, Xinloong Han, Takeshi Kondo, Jiangping Hu, Shik Shin, Zhiwei Wang*, Xun Shi*, Yugui Yao, Kozo Okazaki*, “Nodeless electron pairing in CsV₃Sb₅-derived kagome superconductors”, Nature (2023), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05907-x.

2. Xun Shi*, Chen-Ting Liao, Zhensheng Tao, Emma Cating-Subramanian, Margaret M. Murnane*, Carlos Hernández-García, Henry C. Kapteyn, “Attosecond light science and its application for probing quantum materials”, Journal of Physics B 53, 184008 (2020). (Review).

3. Yingchao Zhang†, Xun Shi*†, Wenjing You†, Zhensheng Tao, Yigui Zhong, Fairoja Cheenicode Kabeer, Pablo Maldonado, Peter M. Oppeneer, Michael Bauer, Kai Rossnagel, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane*, “Coherent modulation of the electron temperature and electron-phonon couplings in a 2D material”, PNAS 117, 8788 (2020).

4. Xun Shi*†, Wenjing You†, Yingchao Zhang†, Zhensheng Tao, Peter M. Oppeneer, Xianxin Wu, Ronny Thomale, Kai Rossnagel, Michael Bauer, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, “Ultrafast electron calorimetry uncovers a new long-lived metastable state in 1T-TaSe₂ mediated by mode-selective electron-phonon coupling”, Science Advances 5, eaav4449 (2019).

5. Wenjing You†, Phoebe Tengdin†, Cong Chen, Xun Shi*, Dmitriy Zusin, Yingchao Zhang, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Mark Keller, Peter M. Oppeneer, Henry Kapteyn, Zhensheng Tao* and Margaret Murnane, “Revealing the Nature of the Ultrafast Magnetic Phase Transition in Ni by Correlating Extreme Ultraviolet Magneto-Optic and Photoemission Spectroscopies”, Physical Review Letters 121, 077204 (2018). (Editors' Suggestion).

6. Phoebe Tengdin†, Wenjing You†, Cong Chen, Xun Shi*, Dmitriy Zusin, Yingchao Zhang, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Mark Keller, Peter M. Oppeneer, Henry C. Kapteyn, Zhensheng Tao* and Margaret M. Murnane, “Critical behavior within 20 fs drives the out-of-equilibrium laser-induced magnetic phase transition in nickel”, Science Advances 4, eaap9744 (2018).

7. X. Shi†, Z.-Q. Han†, P. Richard, X.-X. Wu, X.-L. Peng, T. Qian, S.C. Wang, J.P. Hu, Y.-J. Sun* & H. Ding*, “FeTe_1−xSe_x monolayer films: towards the realization of high-temperature connate topological superconductivity”, Science Bulletin 62, 503 (2017).

8. X. Shi†, Z.-Q. Han†, X.-L. Peng, P. Richard, T. Qian, X.-X. Wu, M.-W. Qiu, S.C. Wang, J.P. Hu, Y.-J. Sun*, H. Ding*, “Enhanced superconductivity accompanying a Lifshitz transition in electron-doped FeSe monolayer”, Nature Communications 8, 14988 (2017).

We are always looking for highly motivated graduate students that are interested in experimental condensed matter physics.