Xiaoqin Li
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Xiaoqin Li | |
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| Known for | Quantum electrodyamics |
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| Thesis | "Coherent transient nonlinear optical spectroscopic studies of single semiconductor quantum dots: Applications to quantum information processing." (2003) |
Xiaoqin Elaine Li is a Chinese and American experimental physicist whose work uses ultrafast laser spectroscopy to study the quantum electrodynamics of electrons and the quantum properties of nanostructures including van der Waals heterostructures, quantum dots, and optical metamaterials. She is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Texas Quantum Institute and holds the Jack S. Josey Welch Foundation Science Chair in Science.[1]
Li entered the physics program at Beijing Normal University intending to teach physics at the high school level, but was encouraged by a professor there to continue her studies abroad, at the graduate level.[1] After graduating in 1997,[2] she completed her Ph.D. in 2003, at the University of Michigan.[3] There, she was one of many doctoral students of Duncan G. Steel.[4]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at JILA, formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, at the University of Colorado Boulder. She became a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007,[1][3] reaching the rank of full professor in 2018.[2]
