Bio

Welcome! I am a nuclear physicist working on the quantum few-body problem — figuring out how a handful of particles interact, scatter, and fuse inside atomic nuclei.

I grew up in Shenyang, China, and studied physics at Northeastern University before moving to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences for graduate school. In 2016, I received my PhD from Universidad de Sevilla in Spain, where I began developing the theoretical tools that still drive my research today. Postdoctoral work then took me to Ohio University and INFN Pisa, where I focused on nuclear reaction theory, particularly on breakup processes and three-body scattering.

I am now a professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, leading the Quantum Few-Body Dynamics group. My core research is on reactions of weakly bound and halo nuclei — breakup, fusion, and transfer — using quantum three-body models and the IAV formalism. In parallel, I develop new computational methods: a reduced-basis emulator that speeds up scattering calculations by orders of magnitude, a direct boundary matching technique for nuclear scattering, and neural-network-based approaches including physics-informed neural networks and variational neural cluster models for nuclear structure.

I genuinely enjoy teaching. There is a classical Chinese saying, “Teaching and learning promote each other” (教学相长), and I find that to be true — my students’ questions regularly push me to think more clearly and more broadly.

Outside of work, I share my home with four cats, each with a personality larger than their body. I like hiking, cooking, watching films, and occasionally live-streaming video games. And as any physicist married to a non-physicist will tell you: Happy Wife, Happy Life.