Team
Principal Investigator
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Dr. Luyi Yang 杨鲁懿
Associate Professor of Physics
PhD: UC Berkeley (2013)
BS: Tsinghua University (2007)
Office: Room C408, Department of Physics
Email: luyi-yang(at)mail(dot)tsinghua(dot)edu(dot)cn
Dr. Yang's research interests focus on the development of novel optical spectroscopies and their application to problems at the forefront of condensed matter and materials physics. She received her B.S. in physics and mathematics from Tsinghua University (2007). She earned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley (2013) working on ultrafast spin dynamics in semiconductors. Then she worked as a Los Alamos Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos. She became an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 2016 (Canada Research Chair). She joined the Department of Physics, Tsinghua University in September 2019.
In her spare time, Luyi enjoys physical activities and is a big fan of volleyball.
Administrative Assistant
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Graduate Students
Kyle Hwangbo: M.Sc. 2017-2018; → PhD student at the University of Washington, USA
Undergraduate Students
Shangjie Zhang 张尚杰: Undergraduate seminar 2022-2023; → Graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
Yuxuan Yao 姚宇轩: Undergraduate seminar 2021-2022; → Graduate student at Rice University, USA
Ziqiang Guan 管梓强: Undergraduate seminar 2020-2022; → Graduate student at Harvard University, USA
Zhijie Wu 吴致颉: Undergraduate seminar 2020-2022; → Graduate student at the University of Hamburg, Germany
Liqun He: Undergraduate research course 2017-2018; → Graduate student at the University of Ottawa, Canada
Felix Frontini: USRA Scholarship Summer 2018 & Undergraduate research course 2018-2019; → Graduate student at the University of Toronto, Canada
Ryan Ripsman: SURF Scholarship Summer 2018
Di Zhou: SURF Scholarship Summer 2017
Visiting Students
Qinwen Deng 邓钦文: Visiting PhD Student from UPenn 2020-2021