ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2105-461X
Scopus Author ID: 57204350266
ResearcherID: E-9988-2011
Google Scholar Profile: jINbPEEAAAAJ

Metrics for Academic and Research Impact

BAO Wei obtained his B.S. in Astrophysics from Peking University in 1983, his M.S. from Institute of Theoretical Physics - Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, and his Ph.D. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University in 1995. He worked as a consultant in AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill in 1994 and performed his postdoctoral research in Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1995 to 1998 before joining the Technical Staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a Distinguished University Professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing from 2009 to 2019.

Prof. BAO was nominated a Fellow of American Physical Society in 2012 by Division of Condensed Matter Physics "for neutron scattering studies of the magnetic structure and spin dynamics of highly correlated electron systems".

He was nominated a Fellow of the Physical Society of Hong Kong in 2022 "for his seminal works on correlated electron systems and disordered quantum systems subjected to the extreme conditions using neutron scattering techniques".

Prof. BAO was awarded the Second Prize in Natural Science of Zhejiang Province for "the discovery of two classes of iron selenide superconductors and the determination of their magnetic structures" in 2021.

Editorial Boards of Chinese Physics B, and Physics, published by Chinese Physical Society. Former editorial board member of Chinese Physics Letters.

Using elastic and inelastic neutron scattering as the main research tool, Prof. BAO has investigated frontier issues of correlated electronic phenomena in condensed matter, including the Mott metal-insulator transition, giant magnetoresistivity, orbital ordering, re-entrant spin-glass state, itinerant antiferromagnetism, low-dimensional quantum antiferromagnetism, and unconventional superconductivity in heavy-fermion, cuprate and iron-based materials, often under extreme condition at low temperature, high pressure and high magnetic field. These works have led to more than 200 plenary and invited talks in international conferences, colloquia and research seminars in US, Europe, Asia and Oceania.

Prof. BAO's publications were selected as "The top 100 most influential academic articles from China" in 2011 and 2013, "The special honour prize 特等奖 for the most influential article" by Chinese Physical Society in 2013, "ESI highly cited papers in the top 1% of the the academic field of Physics" in 2019, "ESI highly cited papers in the top 1% of the the academic field of Materials Science" in 2019, and since 2020 he has been selected as "Stanford's top 2% most highly cited scientists". 

Prof. BAO was the principal investigator of National Key R&D Projects of NSFC and MoST. He has also led the design and construction of a suite of innovative and complimentary cold-neutron inelastic spectrometers at China Advanced Research Reactor in Beijing as the PI of a ￥111 million National Key Research Infrastructure Project. He continues to contribute to the state-of-art instrumentations at China Spallation Neutron Source in Dongguan.

Member of the Executive Committee on Neutron Scattering of Chinese Physical Society

Member of the Executive Committee on X-ray Diffraction of Chinese Physical Society

Member of the Executive Committee on Theory of Magnetism of Chinese Physical Society

Member of the Academic Committee of China Spallation Neutron Source

Former member of the Executive Committee on Low Temperature Physics of Chinese Physical Society

Former member of the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Neutron Physics of Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics

Former member of the Academic Committee of National Laboratory for Superconductivity of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Former member of the Advisory Committee on Science and Technology,  Ministry of Education of P.R.China

A popular science article in Chinese: 铁基高温超导体的中子散射研究 (wuli.ac.cn)