Prof. LI Danfeng Denver (李丹楓)

Danfeng Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and currently serves as Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Education in the College of Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). Prof. Li has received several prestigious awards and recognitions, including the AAPPS-APCTP Chen-Ning Yang Award in 2023, The Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research in 2024, the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (China) in 2021, and the Stanford's List of World's Top 2% Scientists in 2023 and 2024.

Prof. Li obtained his B.Eng. from Zhejiang University and M.Phil. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (advisor: Prof. Ji-yan Dai). Shortly after earning his Ph.D. (2016) in the Department of Quantum Matter Physics at University of Geneva (advisor: Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone), he joined Stanford University as a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. Harold Hwang. He joined CityUHK as an Assistant Professor in November 2020.

Prof. Li's main research interests span across condensed-matter physics and materials science, focusing on atomic-scale fabrication of oxide heterostructures and nanomembranes, kinetic based synthesis of unconventional quantum materials, low-dimensional superconductivity, oxide interfaces for emergent states, etc. In 2019, a team led by Prof. Li and Prof. Hwang discovered the first nickelate superconductor, which had been a target of continuous materials search for over three decades. This discovery has opened a new research area, which now marks nickelates as the new family of high-temperature superconductors.

李丹楓教授目前擔任物理系副教授及理學院副院長（研究與研究生教育）。李教授獲得多項重要獎項，包括亞太物理學會聯合會與亞太理論物理中心共同頒發的2023年度楊振寧獎，氧化物电子学国际探讨会颁发的2024年度氧化物电子学杰出研究奖，2021年度麻省理工科技評論35名35歲以下創新者（中國）榜單以及2023年度、2024年度斯坦福大學全球前2%頂尖科學家榜單。

李教授本科畢業於浙江大學材料科學與工程專業，隨後獲得香港理工大學應用物理系研究型碩士學位（師從戴吉岩教授），2016年獲得瑞士日內瓦大學量子物理系博士學位（師從Jean-Marc Triscone教授）。 2017年2月受瑞士國家自然科學基金資助，加入美國斯坦福大學從事博士後研究（合作導師Harold Hwang教授）。2020年11月加入城大物理系任助理教授。

李教授主要從事新型氧化物電子薄膜製備、原子尺度異質結外延生長、低維超導體系及界面新奇物理性質等相關研究。近年來在Nature、Science、Nature Materials、Nature Physics、Physical Review Letters、Nature Communications等學術期刊發表多篇重要論文。 2019年，他與Hwang教授領導的研究小組在世界上首次發現鎳基超導材料，解決了困擾超導學界超過三十年的難題，開創了”鎳基超導時代”，引起很大反響。