Meet our team
Principal Investigator
Dr. Berthold Jäck
Assistant Professor of Physics
Associate Director, IAS Center for Quantum Matter
Room 4435, Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
p: (852) 2358-7495
Technical Staff
Ivana Wong
Technician
Room 4146
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Team
Qirong Yao
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD in Physics, University of Twente (2019)
Research Interest:
Topological and correlated states in moiré materials
Andrew Zheng Jiangchang
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD in Physics, HKUST (2026)
B.S. in Physics, Peking University (2021)
Research Interest:
Correlated states and unconventional charge order in kagome metals
Thomas Cheuk Fan Ka
Graduate Student (2nd year)
B.Sc. In Physics, HKUST (2025)
Research Interest:
Microscopic study of bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide moiré superlattices using scanning tunnelling microscopy
Liang Zeyu
Graduate Student (1st year)
B.Sc. In Physics, USTC (2026)
Research Interest:
Unconventional superconductivity and Majorana states in altermagnetic heterostructures
Brian Pang
Undergraduate Student (senior year)
Research Interest:
Fabrication of split-gate 2D material devices for STM investigations
Novel Microscopy Methods Team
Yizhou Wei
Graduate student (4th year)
B.Sc. in Physics, Hunan University (2022)
Research Interest:
Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy of fractional quantum Hall systems
Junwei Liu
Graduate student (3rd year)
M.Sc. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (2024)
Research Interest:
Development of a Quantum Twisting Microscope
Yuqi Jiang
Graduate student (3rd year)
M.Sc. in Material Science, NUS (2024)
Research Interest:
Microwave Impedance Microscopy of topological states in moiré superlattices
Weilin Ma
Graduate Student (2nd year)
M.Sc. In Electronics Information, CAS (2025)
Research Interest:
Implementation of Scanning Charge Qubit Microscopy
Chiu Kwok On
Master Student (1st year)
B.Sc. In Physics+AI, HKUST (2026)
Research Interest:
Development of a Quantum Twisting Microscope
Sunny Li
Graduate student (1st year)
B.Sc. in Physics+AI, HKUST (2026)
Research Interest:
Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy of fractional quantum Hall systems
Materials Team
Soumya Sankar
Postdoctoral Associate
PhD in Physics, HKUST (2026)
M.Sc. in Physics, Central University of Karnataka (2019)
Research Interest:
Molecular beam epitaxy and nonlinear transport measurements of topological antiferromagnets
Yuqi Jiang
Graduate student (3rd year)
B.Sc. in Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2024)
Research Interest:
Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Experimental Study of kagome metals
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ALUMNI
Chelsey Chan Sze Chit
Undergraduate Researcher on fabrication of moiré materials → Visiting student at NUS
Kao Ming
Undergraduate Researcher on fabrication of moiré materials
Kayden Fung
Undergraduate Researcher on the Development of a Quantum Twisting Microscope
Ragutheja Bollampally
Undergraduate Researcher on active learning MBE → Master student at KU Leuven
Yu QIngrong
Undergraduate Researcher on the Development of a Quantum Twisting Microscope → Master student at LMU Munich
Dominic Huang
Undergraduate Researcher on MBE growth of kagome magnets
Anthony Cheng
Undergraduate Researcher on fabrication of moiré materials
Kian Rafati
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Sharif University
Alireza Radfard
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Sharif University
Yiyu Chen
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, SUSTECH
Chui Shek Hei
Undergraduate Researcher
Gary Yu Cheuk Yin
Undergraduate Researcher -> University of Manchester, M.Sc. student
Caiyun Chen
Tin Ka Ping Postdoctoral Research Fellow -> Max-Planck-Institute, Germany
Yekta Esmaeil Kashi
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Sharif University
Juncheng Li
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Fudan University
Faith Yi-Hsin Lin
Undergraduate Researcher -> Research Assistant Shanghai Jiatong University
Demin Zhang
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, School of the Gifted Young at USTC
Peter Ce
Undergraduate student -> Undergraduate student at Lei Lab at HKUST
Justin Siu Chi Wang
Undergraduate student -> Caltech, Graduate studies with Prof. Nadj-Perge
Wilwin
Research Engineer -> TDK
Xi Chen
Postdoctoral Associate -> Siemens Healthineers
Casey Leung Ka Wun
Undergraduate student -> U Toronto, Graduate studies
Brian Pang Chun Sum
Undergraduate student -> UBC Vancouver, Graduate studies
Yuqi Qin
Visiting undergraduate research student in summer 2023, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Junping Luo
Visiting undergraduate research student in summer 2023, Sun-Yat-Sen University, China
Fanjiang Ye
Visiting undergraduate research student in summer 2022, USTC, China