Draft:Binghai Yan

Yan received his Ph.D. in physics from Tsinghua University in 2008. His doctoral research focused on theoretical condensed matter physics and electronic structure theory.ORCID profile: Binghai Yan.

After completing his Ph.D., Yan held postdoctoral positions supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Bremen, followed by a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford University.ORCID record for Binghai Yan.

In 2012 he became a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, where he established a research program on topological quantum materials and computational electronicBinghai Yan, Pennsylvania State University

2025 recipient, Division of Condensed Matter Physics Fellowship

For outstanding contributions to materials prediction for topological quantum states and topology-driven nonlinear phenomena. structure theory.Curriculum vitae – Weizmann Institute of Science.

Yan joined the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2017 as a faculty member in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, where he later became associate professor.Weizmann Institute faculty profile.

In 2025 he joined Pennsylvania State University as a professor of physics.Penn State Physics Department profile.

Yan’s research focuses on theoretical and computational studies of quantum materials, particularly

• topological insulators and semimetals
• Weyl and Dirac fermions in solids
• quantum geometry and Berry curvature effects
• nonlinear electronic transport phenomena

His work has contributed to theoretical predictions and understanding of Weyl semimetals and other topological phases of matter, as well as quantum-geometry-driven nonlinear electronic responses in crystals.Yan, B.; Felser, C. "Topological Materials: Weyl Semimetals." Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics.

Yan has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications, with over 37,000 citations and an h-index above 90.Google Scholar profile: Binghai Yan.

His research has appeared in journals including Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, and Physical Review Letters.ORCID publication record.

Yan's research has contributed to several developments in the theoretical understanding of topological quantum materials and electronic transport phenomena. His contributions include:

• Prediction of Weyl semimetal materials, helping identify realistic material systems that host Weyl fermions and topological band structures in crystalline solids.
• Quantum-geometry-driven nonlinear Hall effects, demonstrating how Berry curvature and quantum metric properties of electronic bands can produce nonlinear electronic responses in materials lacking inversion symmetry.
• Topological electronic structures in chiral and magnetic materials, including theoretical studies of chiral crystals and magnetic topological systems exhibiting unconventional transport and topological phenomena.

• Fellow of the American Physical Society (2025)
• Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (since 2019)
• ERC Consolidator Grant (2019)
• Israel Physical Society Young Scientist Prize (2017)
• ARCHES Prize, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2013)
• Humboldt Fellowship (2008)

• B. Yan and C. Felser, “Topological Materials: Weyl Semimetals,” Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics (2017).
• Y. Liu, J. Xiao, J. Koo, and B. Yan, “Chirality-driven topological electronic structure of DNA-like materials,” Nature Materials (2021).
• N. Wang et al., “Quantum metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet,” Nature (2023).

• Yan Research Group website
• Google Scholar profile

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