Education
University of California, Berkeley
PhD in Physics | Jan 2021 - Dec 2025 (Expected)
Advisor: Prof. Feng Wang
Research Focus: Strongly correlated 2D electron systems, quantum many-body phenomena
University of Chinese Academy of Science (UCAS)
Bachelor of Science in Physics | Jun 2016 - Dec 2020
Location: Beijing, China
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Jan 2021 - Present
Feng Wang Group | Berkeley, CA
- Applied STM to study strongly correlated 2D interacting electrons with sub-nanometer spatial resolution
- Applied AFM for SNOM, PFM, and TFM measurements
- Mastered 2D material exfoliation, polymer stacking, lithography techniques
- Conducted optical spectroscopy measurements
Undergraduate Research Assistant
UC Berkeley | Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Feng Wang Group | Berkeley, CA
- Mechanical exfoliation of 2D materials and device transfer
- E-field assisted graphene exfoliation
- Machine learning for graphene image identification
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Wu Zhou’s Group | Beijing, China
- Transfer of 2D materials for TMD heterostructure preparation
Awards & Honors
Kavli Graduate Student Fellow
Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, UC Berkeley | Sep 2024 - Sep 2025
Kavli ENSI Fellowship
Lixin Tang’s Scholarship
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | Nov 2018
Major Award of UCAS
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | Oct 2017
Awarded to top 5% of undergraduate students
Publications
2025 Publications
- Xiang, Z.*, Li, H.*, Xiao, J.*, Naik, M. H., Ge, Z., He, Z., … & Wang, F. (2025). Imaging quantum melting in a disordered 2D Wigner solid. *Science 388(6748), 736-740. DOI: 10.1126/science.ado7136
Peer-Reviewed Publications (2024)
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Li, H.*, Xiang, Z.*, Wang, T. et al. Imaging tunable Luttinger liquid systems in van der Waals heterostructures. Nature 631(8022), 765–770 (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07596-6
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Li, H.*, Xiang, Z.*, Wang, T. et al. Wigner molecular crystals from multielectron moiré artificial atoms. Science 385(6704), 86-91 (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adk1348
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Li, H.*, Xiang, Z.*, Naik, M.H.* et al. Imaging moiré excited states with photocurrent tunnelling microscopy. *Nature Materials 23(5), 633–638 (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01753-4
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Li, H.*, Xiang, Z.*, Regan, E. et al. Mapping charge excitations in generalized Wigner crystals. Nature Nanotechnology 19(5), 618–623 (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01594-x
Peer-Reviewed Publications (2021)
- Stansbury, C., M Iqbal Bakti Utama, Fatuzzo, C., Regan, E., Wang, D., Xiang, Z. et al. Visualizing electron localization of WS₂/WSe₂ moiré superlattices in momentum space. Science Advances 7(37), eabf4387 (2021). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf4387
Last updated: June 2025