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
2026 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
2025 Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
2025 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize (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
50 presentations in total, including 35 invited talks .
- Ischia, NA, Italy
- Davis, CA, United States
- Aarhus C, Denmark
- Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Fethiye, Muğla, Türkiye
- City Centre, Bristol, England
- London, England
- Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
- Bath, England
- Dresden, Saxony, Germany
- Nottingham, England
- St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland
- Abingdon, England
- Singapore
- Lake, Dorset, England
- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Oxford, England
- Manchester, England
- Berkeley, CA, United States
- Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Boston, MA, United States
- 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
2027 Committee, 17th New Generation in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems conference, Europe
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: 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; Quantum Tunneling in Superconductors.
4th year Quantum Materials
Final year UG research projects in Josephson junction, quasiparticle interference imaging.
Reviewing
Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, PNAS, Nature Communications.
UKRI & EPSRC research grants, DFG research grants.
