Wei Wu

Ø I completed my Ph.D. in Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London (UCL), supported by the Overseas Research Scholarship and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) studentship.

Ø My research topics include silicon dopants and spin-bearing molecules, towards quantum.

Ø My career includes significant roles as follows.

n I worked as a key team member to model the magnetic molecules for the EPSRC Molecular Spintronics project (more than 10 papers were published). Between 2010 and 2020, I served as a research associate at Imperial College London and later at UCL.

n I also served as an Associate Lecturer at UCL from 2020 to 2021, teaching materials science and supervising MSc students for their materials modelling projects. 

n I also worked as the Principal Investigator leading the EU Horizon 2020 Marketplace Project at the UCL Institute for Materials Discovery (IMD) from 2021 to 2022, focusing on the modelling of novel materials.

Ø For the global mobility, I have worked as a Visiting Scholar in China and developed my leadership and collaborative skills.

Ø I have developed extensive skills in modelling the magnetic, optical, vibrational and mechanical properties of novel functional materials. These technical skills are complemented by the collaborations with experimentalists, resulting in almost 70 peer-reviewed publications, including one in Nature Communications, two in NPG Asia Materials, one in Scientific Reports, two in Advanced Materials, two in ACS Nano, and one in Chemical Engineering Journal.

Ø My research focuses on modelling advanced materials for new technologies, such as quantum computing.