Principal Investigator: Qiang Li

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

At BNL, he has been a lead principal investigator of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Science’s “superconducting materials”, and recently “chiral materials and unconventional superconductivity” programs for nearly two decades. In 2009, Li became the newly created Advanced Energy Materials Group Leader. He has led BNL’s effort in a number of DOE projects from high temperature superconductors for grid scale energy storage, wind power generation and next generation electrical machine to vehicle waste heat recovery by thermoelectrics. His research interests range from basic physics and material sciences of superconductors, thermoelectrics, and topological quantum materials to their applications in energy and quantum information technology. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society, a recipient of R&D 100 award, among others.

Staff Scientist:

Niraj Aryal (Theory by first-principles and effective Hamiltonian methods/BNL)

Postdocs:

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

Ran Jing (Ultrafast optical and Nano-optical spectroscopy/BNL)

Laboratory Assistant:

Zhixiang Hu (Physics-CDQP/SBU)

Graduate Students:

Sarah Paone (Physics/SBU)

Juntao (Jerry) Yao (MSCE/SBU)

Chuan Sun (Chemistry/SBU)

Undergraduate Students:

Owen Deluca (Physics/SBU)

Benjamin Gunderman (Physics/SBU)

Shukun Li (Physics/SBU)

Elise Boria (Physics/SBU)

Former group members:

Shannon Lee (a former postdoc and an expert in materials synthesis at BNL, now a Materials Staff Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Daniel Nevola (a former postdoc and an expert in time resolved laser ARPES and electronic structure characterizations at BNL, now a Senior Technical Staff at Nokia)

Pedro Mercado Lozano (a former PhD graduate student in Physics/SBU, now a postdoc at Advanced Photon Source/Argonne National Laboratory)

Kentaro Matsushima (a former Undergraduate/Master-Degree graduate student in ME/SBU, now a Mechanical Engineer at Electron Ion Collider/BNL)