Principal Investigator: Qiang Li

In Fall 2020, Qiang Li joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy as a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor, holding a joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to continue leading the Advanced Energy Materials Group.

At BNL, Li has served as a lead principal investigator for decades in the DOE Office of Basic Energy Science’s programs on “Superconducting Materials” and, more recently, “Chiral Materials and Unconventional Superconductivity.” In 2009, he was appointed as the inaugural leader of the Advanced Energy Materials Group. Li has spearheaded BNL’s efforts on numerous DOE projects, including the development of high-temperature superconductors for grid-scale energy storage, wind power generation, and next-generation electrical machines, as well as vehicle waste heat recovery using thermoelectrics.

His research interests encompass the fundamental science of superconducting, magnetic, thermoelectric, and topological quantum materials, as well as their applications in energy and quantum information technology. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the R&D 100 Award, among other honors.

Contact info: qiang.li@stonybrook.edu. Office: B-143, Labs: B-126/128.

Staff Scientist:

Niraj Aryal (Ai/ML, First-principles and effective Hamiltonian methods/BNL)

Postdocs:

Antu Laha (Synthesis and characterizations including crystal growth, Physics/SBU)

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi (Theory of condensed matters/SBU)

Shan Lin (PLD Thin film growth and characterizations/BNL)

Ran Jing (Nano-optical spectroscopy, Physics/SBU, in collaboration with Prof. Mengkun Liu)

Graduate Students:

Juntao Yao (MSCE/SBU)

Sarah Paone (Physics/SBU)

Michael Carnahan (Chemistry/SBU, in collaboration with Prof. Stanislaus Wong)

Shane Weiner (Physics/Brown University)

Undergraduate Students:

Carl Liu (Physics/Math/SBU)

Maximilian Cederholm (Physics/SBU)

Jacob Burbar (Physics/SBU)