2017 – 2020 Imperial College London, Materials Research, PhD
2015 – 2016 Imperial College London, Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, MSc
2014 – 2015 University of Sheffield, Chemistry, BSc
2011 – 2014 Nanjing Tech University, Chemistry, BSc

2023 – now Beijing Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Tenure-track Assistant Professor
2021 – 2023 Beijing Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, ’Te-Li’ Postdoctoral Fellow

Room-temperature solid-state microwave quantum devices:
Research topic 1: Maser-enhanced quantum sensing (magnetometry);
Research topic 2. Ultra-low-noise microwave amplification and generation with solid-state quantum systems;
Research topic 3. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) study of organic molecular crystals;
Research topic 4. Microwave cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED).

Selected publications [#equal contributions, *corresponding author]:

1. Hao Wu#, Shuo Yang#, Mark Oxborrow, Min Jiang, Qing Zhao, Dmitry Budker, Bo Zhang*, Jiangfeng Du, Enhanced quantum sensing with room-temperature solid-state masers, Science Advances, 8, eade1613 (2022)

2. Hao Wu, Shamil Mirkhanov, Wern Ng, Mark Oxborrow*, Bench-top cooling of a microwave mode using an optically pumped spin refrigerator, Physical Review Letters, 127 (5), 053604 (2021)

3. Hao Wu#, Tong Li#, Zhang-Qi Yin, Jiyang Ma*, Xu-Ri Yao, Bo Zhang, Mark Oxborrow, Qing Zhao, Towards simultaneous coherent radiation in the visible and microwave bands with doped molecular crystals, Advanced Functional Materials, 33 (24), 2300253 (2023)

4. Hao Wu, Xiangyu Xie, Wern Ng, Seif Mehanna, Yingxu Li, Max Attwood, Mark Oxborrow*, Room-temperature quasi-continuous-wave pentacene maser pumped by an invasive Ce:YAG luminescent concentrator, Physical Review Applied, 14 (6), 064017 (2020)

5. Hao Wu*, Shamil Mirkhanov, Wern Ng, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Yuling Xiong, Mark Oxborrow*, Invasive optical pumping for room-temperature masers, time-resolved EPR, triplet-DNP, and quantum engines exploiting strong coupling, Optics Express, 28 (20), 29691-29702 (2020)

6. Hao Wu, Shamil Mirkhanov, Arman Amirzhan, Supamas Nitnara & Mark Oxborrow*, Unraveling the room-temperature spin dynamics of photoexcited pentacene in its lowest triplet state at zero field, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 24275-24279 (2019)

We plan to admit 1 to 2 students each year for master’s projects. We welcome students with a background in applied/quantum physics, microwave engineering, materials science and engineering, instrument science who are interested in developing microwave quantum devices.