Jia Jinfeng

Jia is a chair professor and vice-dean of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and acting vice-president of the Southern University of Science and Technology. He graduated in 1987 and received his PhD in condensed matter physics in 1992, both from from Peking University. In 2021, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jia is an experimental physicist specializing in condensed matter physics. His main research interests include topological superconductors, quantum materials, and quantum phenomena in nanostructures. He has authored more than 340 scientific papers, including 6 in Science, 3 in Nature, 4 in Nature Physics, 3 in Nature Materials, and 30 in Physical Review Letters, with over 24,000 citations. He has received numerous honors, including the National Prize for Advancement in Natural Science (second class, 2004), the National Prize for Advancement in Natural Science (second class, 2011), the Group Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement from the Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation of Hong Kong (2011), and the National Prize for Advancement in Natural Science (second class, 2019).