Qikun Xue

Academician
Dr. Qikun Xue is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected into the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. He was the Vice President for Research of Tsinghua University from 2013 to 2020 and became the third President of Southern University of Science and Technology in 2020. He is also Director of Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Director of Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-HongKong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Vice Chairman of Chinese Physical Society. Dr. Xue is a world renowned experimental physicist and his research interests include scanning tunneling microcopy/spectroscopy, molecular beam epitaxy, low-dimensional and interface-related superconductivity, topological insulators, and quantum size effects in various low-dimensional structures. He won the TWAS Prize in Physics in 2010, the Future Science Prize for Physical Sciences in 2016, State Natural Science Award (the First Prize) in 2018, The Fritz London Memorial Prize in 2020, Outstanding Contribution Zhongguancun Award, Beijing Science and Technology Award in 2020, Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award in 2020, and the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize.

In June 2024, he received the National Highest Science and Technology Award for the year 2023, becoming the youngest recipient in the history of the National Highest Science and Technology Award.