Shaowei Li

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Assistant Professor

Research Focus
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and microscopy, ultrafast laser spectroscopy and microscopy, surface dynamics and kinetics, low dimensional quantum materials, strongly correlated systems
Research Summary

Professor Li's lab focuses on spectroscopy and microscopy at the Atomic Level Laboratory. The lab combines femtosecond laser and scanning tunneling microscope to study the quantum phenomena that occur at nearly the smallest length scale and the fastest time scale. 

Shaowei Li
Lab Website
Email:
shaoweili@ucsd.edu

Bio

With a B.Sc. from Nankai University in 2010 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2017, Professor Shaowei Li has cultivated a robust academic background. His professional journey includes serving as a Kavli ENSI Heising-Simons Junior Fellow at UC Berkeley from 2018 to 2020 and contributing as a Postdoc Fellow at Northwestern University from 2017 to 2018. Throughout his career, he's received many awards, including the Hellman Fellowship from the Hellman Foundation in May 2022, the NSTD Early Career Award from AVS in November 2020, the 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award from OCPA in November 2019, the Physical Chemistry Young Investigator Award from ACS in April 2018, the Heising-Simons Junior Fellowship from Kavli ENSI at UC Berkeley in January 2018, and the Margaret Burbidge Award from APS Far West Section in January 2018.