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Dr. Zhong Wan earned his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University in 2018. Following his doctoral studies, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA as a postdoctoral research scholar. In 2025, Dr. Wan was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Zhong Wan is an experimental condensed matter physicist whose research interests include quantum materials engineering, the development of nanoscale devices and their applications, and the investigation of emergent low-temperature quantum transport properties.

1. Z. Wan*, Q. Qian*, Y. Huang, X. F. Duan, Layered hybrid superlattices as designable quantum solids, Nature 635, 49 (2024).
2. Z. Wan*, G. Qiu*, H. Ren, Q. Qian, D. Xu, J. Y. Zhou, J. X. Zhou, B. Zhou, L. Wang, Y. Huang, K. L Wang, X. F. Duan, Unconventional Superconductivity in Chiral Molecule Intercalated Tantalum Disulfide, Nature 632, 69(2024).
3. Q. Qian*, Z. Wan*, H. Takenaka*, J. K. Keum, T. J. Smart, L. Wang, P. Wang, J. Y. Zhou, H. Ren, D. Xu, Y. Huang, Y. Ping, X. F. Duan, Photocarrier-induced persistent structural polarization in soft-lattice lead halide perovskites, Nature Nanotechnology18, 357 (2023).
4. B. Zhao*, Z. Wan*, Y. Liu, J. Xu, X. Yang, D. Shen, Z. Zhang, C. Guo, Q. Qian, J. Li, R. Wu, Z. Lin, X. Yan, B. Li, Z. Zhang, H. Ma, B. Li, X. Chen, Y. Qiao, I. Shakir, Z. Almutairi, F. Wei, Y. Zhang, X. Pan, Y. Huang, Y. Ping, X. D. Duan,X. F. Duan, High-order superlattices by rolling up van der Waals heterostructures, Nature 519, 385 (2021).
5. B. Li*, Z. Wan*,C. Wang*, P. Chen*, B. Huang, X. Cheng, Q. Qian, J. Li, Z. Zhang, G. Sun, B. Zhao, H. Ma, R. Wu, Z. Wei, Y. Liu, L. Liao, Y. Ye, Y. Huang, X. D. Xu, X. D. Duan, W. Ji,X. F. Duan, Van der Waals epitaxial growth of air-stable CrSe₂ nanosheets with thickness tunable magnetic orders, Nature Material 20, 818 (2021).

1. UCLA chancellor award for postdoctoral researcher 2024
2. UCLA department of Chemistry award for postdoctoral researcher 2021