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Hongwei JiaMore

  • Title:Associate professor
  • Tel:jiahongwei@tongji.edu.cn
  • Office:Room 310 in Optics Building
  • Information of Tutors:Doctoral supervisor

Hongwei Jia, doctoral supervisor and associate professor at the School of Physical Science and Engineering, Tongji University. He was supported by The National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Fund. Mainly engaged in the research of theories in topological photonics, nanophotonics and non-Hermitian physics. He has undertaken two scientific research projects, one of which is funded by national science foundation of China, and the other is general research funding projects supported by Hong Kong. He has published more than 20 articles, such as Science, Nature Physics, Light: Science & Applications, Physical Review Letters, Communications Physics, etc.

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Work experience

Dec 2024 - present, Associate Professor, Tongji University

Mar 2019 Sep 2024, Postdoc and Research Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Feb 2017 Jan 2019, Postdoc, University of Birmingham UK


Educational experience

Sep 2011 - Jun 2016, Institute of Modern Optics Nankai University, PhD in Optics

Sep 2007 - Jun 2011, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Bachelor of Optics


Mainly engaged in the theories of topological photonics, nanophotonics, non-hermitian physics.


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Major contribution

2025.8

2028.8

Topological photonics in artificial structures

National Science   Foundation of China for Outstanding Young Fund

Principle investigator

2021.8

2024.7

Non-Abelian gauge field in Dirac/Weyl metamaterials

Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

Principle investigator


Articles:

1. Jia H, Zhang R, Gao W, et al. Observation of chiral zero mode in inhomogeneous three-dimensional Weyl metamaterials[J]. Science, 2019, 363(6423): 148-151.

2. Hu, J., Zhang, R. Y., Wang, Y., Ouyang, X., Zhu, Y. *, Jia, H.*, & Chan, C. T. * (2023). Non-Hermitian swallowtail catastrophe revealing transitions among diverse topological singularities. Nature Physics, 19(8), 1098-1103.

3. Jia, H. *, Wang, M., Ma, S., Zhang, R. Y., Hu, J., Wang, D., & Chan, C. T. * (2023). Experimental realization of chiral Landau levels in two-dimensional Dirac cone systems with inhomogeneous effective mass. Light: Science & Applications, 12(1), 165.

4. Jia, H. *, Zhang, R. Y., Hu, J., Xiao, Y., Zhang, S., Zhu, Y. *, & Chan, C. T. * (2023). Topological classification for intersection singularities of exceptional surfaces in pseudo-Hermitian systems. Communications Physics, 6(1), 293.

5. Jia, H., Zhang, R. Y., Gao, W., Zhang, S. *, & Chan, C. T. * (2021). Chiral transport of pseudospinors induced by synthetic gravitational field in photonic Weyl metamaterials. Physical Review B, 104(4), 045132.

6. Ma S, Jia H, Bi Y, et al. Gauge field induced chiral zero mode in five-dimensional Yang monopole metamaterials[J]. Physical Review Letters, 2023, 130(24): 243801.

7. Wang, D., Jia, H., Yang, Q., Hu, J., Zhang, Z. Q., & Chan, C. T. (2023). Intrinsic triple degeneracy point bounded by nodal surfaces in chiral photonic crystal. Physical Review Letters, 130(20), 203802.


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