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Xiaoliang Qi
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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]
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Education and career
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]
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Awards and honors
- 2010 Sloan Fellowship[3][5]
- 2011 Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics[3][5]
- 2011 Packard Fellowship[3]
- 2012 NSF CAREER Award[5]
- 2014 Sackler International Prize of Physics[5]
- 2016 New Horizons in Physics Prize[1][3][5][6][7][8]
- 2018 Simons Investigator[3]
Personal life
Qi lives in Palo Alto, California.[2][better source needed]
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