Contact
Assistant Professor, School of Physics, University of Bristol
Email: shuqiucwang@gmail.com
Laboratory:
(1) Ultra-low vibration/noise lab in Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information;
(2) Low vibration/noise lab in H H Wills Physics Laboratory.
Education and Employment
2025 onwards Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer), HH Wills Laboratory, School of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
2024 – 2025 Assistant Professor (Lecturer), HH Wills Laboratory, School of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
2024 onwards Academic Visitor, Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. My Oxford website →
2022 – 2023 Visiting Scientist, Lab of Atomic & Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US.
2019 – 2023 Postdoc, Experimental Quantum Matter. Advisor: J. C. Séamus Davis, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2015 – 2019 DPhil, Materials. Advisor: Martin R. Castell, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Selected Awards and Honors
2025 Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
2025 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize on Low Temperature Physics (C5)
2025 UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award
2024 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for Europe
2023 Rising Stars in Physics
2016 Mansfield College Graduate Award, Oxford University
2012 National Scholarship
Invited talks
42 presentations in total, including 26 invited talks .
08/2025 30th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT30), Bilbao, Spain.
08/2025 IOP Conference on Quantum Geometry in Quantum Materials, University of Bath, Bath, UK
04/2025 10th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (ICSM-10), Fethiye, Turkey.
03/2025 International Workshop on Flat Bands, Strong Correlations, and Heavy Fermions, Dresden, Germany.
11/2024 University of Bath, Bath, UK
10/2024 University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
09/2024 Institute of Physics – Surface Science Day, Nottingham, UK.
07/2024 The Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials (CMQM), St. Andrews, UK
06/2024 The 22nd Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
05/2024 National University of Singapore, Singapore
04/2024 Imperial College, London, UK
03/2024 Rank Prize Symposium – Ultrafast Meets Ultrasmall, Lake District, UK
03/2024 University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
03/2024 American Physical Society March Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
12/2023 Science and Technologies in High Magnetic Fields, Oxford, UK.
08/2023 International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids, Manchester, UK
07/2023 Condensed Matter Physics in the City, London, UK
05/2023 Rising Stars in Physics, University of California Berkeley, US
05/2023 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, University of California Berkeley, US
03/2023 University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
03/2023 American Physical Society March Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, US
03/2023 Young Investigators Workshop on Topology and Superconductivity in SCES, online
12/2022 MIT, Boston, US
12/2022 Harvard University, Boston, US
03/2022 Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
Outreach
2024 My YouTobe interview at Bristol
2024 Kurti Science Prize interview
2022 My YouTobe interview at Oxford
2021 Organizer of an outreach conference, introducing college subjects to 100-200 high school graduates from under-privileged regions
2018 UK Soapbox Science at Oxford to promote women scientists and their science
2017 Member of OxFEST to promote gender equality in STEM disciplines
2017 Speaker at ‘Academics at Oxford’ podcast to promote scientific research to the public.
Organization
2025 Committee, Oxford Symposium on Quantum Materials in Frontiers of Quantum Microscopy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2025 Committee, Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials (CMQM) Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol UK
Teaching
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Foundation year UG – Core Physics: Structure of Matter and Thermal Physics.
1st year UG tutorial workshop.
2nd year UG physics lab: Zeeman splitting, Acoustic resonance, Quantum eraser, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction.
3rd year UG physics lab: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy and Spectroscopy.
Final year UG research projects in quasiparticle interference imaging.
Reviewing
Nature, Nature Physics, PNAS, Nature Communications, npj Quantum Materials, Physical Review series.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), German Research Foundation (DFG).
Wang Lab of Quantum Matter 