Xiaoliang Qi | |
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Occupation | Physicist |
Years active | 2007-present |
Employer | Stanford University |
Xiaoliang Qi ( simplified Chinese: 祁晓亮; traditional Chinese: 祁曉亮; pinyin: Qí Xiǎoliàng; [1] born July 1983 [2][ better source needed]) is a Chinese physicist and professor at Stanford University who studies quantum entanglement, quantum gravity, quantum chaos, and topological phenomena in condensed matter. [3] He earned his B.S. in 2003 and Ph.D. in 2007 from Tsinghua University. [3]
Qi earned a B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2003 and earned a Ph.D. in Physics at the Institute of Advanced Study in the same institution in 2007. [3] [4]
Qi was a research associate at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 2007 to 2009; [3] following that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Station Q in UC Santa Barbara from 2009 to 2010. [3] He was an assistant professor of physics at Stanford University from 2009 to 2014, an associate professor from 2014 to 2018, and a professor since 2019. [3] From September 2017 to March 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. [4] His research group has pointed out the relationship between topological insulators in three space dimensions and axion electrodynamics. [5][ clarification needed]
Qi lives in Palo Alto, California. [2][ better source needed]