Yong Xu

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Dr. Yong Xu is currently a tenured professor at Department of Physics, Tsinghua University， China, and a unit leader at Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), RIKEN, Japan. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees both at Tsinghua University, then worked at Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck Society and Stanford University as a postdoc and a research scholar, respectively. He was awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship of Germany and National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His main research interest is to understand/predict emergent quantum phenomena and materials from first-principles.