Lei is currently a staff researcher at Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Chalmers University of Technology. His work lies at the intersection of quantum optics, condensed matter physics, and quantum information, with research interests including waveguide and cavity quantum electrodynamics, cavity optomechanics, continuous-variable quantum computation, and topological photonics. So far, he has authored 40 peer-reviewed journal publications.
Employment and education:
Since 08/2026 Staff researcher at MC2 (in Prof. Anton Frisk Kockum's group),
Chalmers University of Technology
08/2023 - 08/2026 Postdoc at MC2 (in Prof. Janine Splettstoesser's group),
Chalmers University of Technology
07/2022 - 07/2023 Postdoc at Center for Quantum Sciences and School of Physics,
Northeast Normal University
09/2019 - 07/2022 PhD student at Beijing Computational Science Research Center,
China Academy of Engineering Physics
09/2016 - 07/2019 Master student at School of Physics,
Northeast Normal University
Main academic activities:
- Guest Editor for the Special Topic "Quantum Optics and Quantum Technology with Giant Atoms" in APL Quantum.
- Invited talk for the 3rd International Workshop on Quantum Optics with Giant Atomic Emitters (May 2026, Chalmers)
- Co-organizer of the Winter School "Light-matter interactions in micro- and nanoscale systems" (November 2025, Chalmers)
- Oral talk for the March Meeting 2025 of the American Physical Society (March 2025, Anaheim, USA)
- Invited talk for the 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Optics with Giant Atomic Emitters (December 2024, Chalmers)
- Co-supervisor of a master student (Aymeric Frerejean from Grenoble INP Phelma) for a six-month project (2024), and two master students (Talha Rehman from RPTU Kaiserslautern and Peiwen Du from Chalmers) for non-mandatory projects
- Invited talk for the 1st International Workshop on Quantum Optics with Giant Atomic Emitters (September 2023, ETH Zürich)
- Invited talks for the weekly seminar "Quantum Unipa" at Università degli Studi di Palermo (January 2022, May 2023)
- Internship at the Faculty of Science, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2018)
Selected honors:
2025 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Standard), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2022 Outstanding Graduate of Beijing
2022 Excellent Graduate, China Academy of Engineering Physics
2021 Special Scholarship, China Academy of Engineering Physics
2020 Excellent Master's Thesis Award of Jilin Province
2018 National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education of the PRC