Dr. Prof. Dawei Shen was born in 1980, Jiangsu Province. He received his B.S. and PhD. degrees in condensed matter physics from the Department of Physics of Fudan University in June 2003 and June 2008, respectively. From Dec. 2008 to Dec. 2010, he carried out post-doctoral work in Department of Physics of Cornell University. There, he developed the first and unique integrated oxide molecular-beam epitaxy and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) system to investigate the novel engineered quantum states of matter, which is the blind spot of traditional ARPES study.  He was an associate professor (Jan. 2011~ Dec. 2015) and then a full professor (Jan. 2016 ~ Dec. 2022) at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS. In 2023, he moved to University of science and technology of China (USTC) and has been the full professor since then. His research focuses on the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of electronic structure of novel quantum materials. He also designed and then built the in-situ ARPES beamline BL-03U at SSRF. As the principal investigator, he is responsible for the Major National project, the National Natural Science Foundation project, and the Pre-research project of CAS. So far, he has been authored or co-authored more than 130 papers published in top peer-reviewed journals, e.g., Nature, Nature materials, Nature communications, PRL and PRX, which have been cited over 5600 times.

Selected publications:

1.        Wenjie Sun^#, Zhicheng Jiang^#, Chengliang Xia^#, Bo Hao^#, Shengjun Yan, Maosen Wang, Yueying Li, Hongquan Liu, Jianyang Ding, Jiayu Liu, Zhengtai Liu, Jishan Liu, Hanghui Chen*, Dawei Shen*, Yuefeng Nie*, “Electronic structure of superconducting infinite-layer lanthanum nickelates”, Science Advances 11, eadr5116 (2025). 

2.        Xikang Sun, Zhengkuan Deng, Yichen Yang, Shuang Yu, Yuqiang Huang, Yunhao Lu, Qian Tao, Da-Wei Shen*, Wen-Yu He*, Chuanying Xi, Li Pi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhu-An Xu*, and Yi Zheng*, “Tunable Mirror-symmetric Type-III Ising Superconductivity in Atomically-thin Natural Van der Waals Heterostructures”. Advanced Materials 37, 2411655 (2025). 

3.        Wei Xia^#, Bo Bai^#, Xuejiao Chen^#, Yichen Yang^#, Yang Zhang, Jian Yuan, Qiang Li, Kunya Yang, Xiangqi Liu, Yang Shi, Haiyang Ma, Huali Yang, Mingquan He, Lei Li, Chuanying Xi, Li Pi, Xiaodong Lv, Xia Wang, Xuerong Liu, Shiyan Li, Xiaodong Zhou, Jianpeng Liu, Yulin Chen, Jian Shen, Dawei Shen*, Zhicheng Zhong*, Wenbo Wang* and Yanfeng Guo*, “Giant Domain Wall Anomalous Hall Effect in a Layered Antiferromagnet EuAl₂Si₂”. Physical Review Letters 133, 216602 (2024). 

4.        Jiayu Liu^#, Jie Zhan^#, Tongrui Li^#, Jishan Liu*, Shufan Cheng, Yuming Shi, Liwei Deng, Meng Zhang, Chihao Li, Jianyang Ding, Qi Jiang, Mao Ye, Zhengtai Liu, Zhicheng Jiang, Siyu Wang, Qian Li, Yanwu Xie, Yilin Wang, Shan Qiao*, Jinsheng Wen*, Yan Sun*, and Dawei Shen*, “Absence of altermagnetic spin splitting character in rutile oxide RuO₂”. Physical Review Letters 133, 176401 (2024), Editors’ Suggestion. ESI Highly Cited Papers & Hot Papers.

5.        Jianyang Ding^#, Zhicheng Jiang^#, Xiuhua Chen^#, Zicheng Tao^#, Zhengtai Liu*, Tongrui Li, Jishan Liu, Jianping Sun, Jinguang Cheng, Jiayu Liu, Yichen Yang, Runfeng Zhang, Liwei Deng, Wenchuan Jing, Yu Huang, Yuming Shi, Mao Ye, Shan Qiao, Yilin Wang*, Yanfeng Guo*, Donglai Feng, and Dawei Shen*, “Large band-splitting in g-wave type altermagnet CrSb”. Physical Review Letters133, 206401 (2024). ESI Highly Cited Papers & Hot Papers.

6.        Zhicheng Jiang^#, Tongrui Li^#, Jian Yuan^#, Zhengtai Liu^#*, Zhipeng Cao, Soohyun Cho, Mingfang Shu, Yichen Yang, Zhikai Li, Jiayu Liu, Jianyang Ding, Zhonghao Liu, Jishan Liu, Jie Ma, Zhe Sun, Xiangang Wan*, Yanfeng Guo*, Dawei Shen*, Donglai Feng, “Topological surface states in quasi-two-dimensional magnetic kagome metal EuTi₃Bi₄”, Science Bulletin 69, 3192 (2024). 

7.        Ning Tian, Zhe Huang, Bo Gyu Jang, Shuaifei Guo, Ya-Jun Yan, Jingjing Gao, Yijun Yu, Jinwoong Hwang, Cenyao Tang, Meixiao Wang, Xuan Luo, Yu Ping Sun, Zhongkai Liu, Dong-Lai Feng, Xianhui Chen, Sung-Kwan Mo, Minjae Kim, Young-Woo Son*, Dawei Shen*, Wei Ruan*, Yuanbo Zhang*, “Dimensionality-driven metal to Mott insulator transition in two-dimensional 1T-TaSe₂”, National Science Review 11, nwad144 (2024). 

8.        Jiangfan Luo^#, Qiwei Tong^#, Zhicheng Jiang^#, Hui Bai, Jinsong Wu, Xiaolin Liu, Sen Xie, Haoran Ge, Yan Zhao, Yong Liu, Min Hong, Dawei Shen*, Qingjie Zhang, Wei Liu*, and Xinfeng Tang*, “Exploring the Epitaxial Growth Kinetics and Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulator MnBi₂Te₄ Films”. ACS nano 17, 19022 (2023). 

9.      Zhicheng Jiang^#, Zhengtai Liu^#*, Haiyang Ma^#, Wei Xia^#, Zhonghao Liu, Jishan Liu, Soohyun Cho, Yichen Yang, Jianyang Ding, Jiayu Liu, Zhe Huang, Yuxi Qiao, Jiajia Shen, Wenchuan Jing, Xiangqi Liu, Jianpeng Liu*, Yanfeng Guo* and Dawei Shen*, “Flat bands, non-trivial band topology and rotation symmetry breaking in layered kagome-lattice RbTi₃Bi₅”. Nature communications 14, 4892 (2023). 

10.      Hongrun Zhang, Zhijian Shi, Zhicheng Jiang, Ming Yang, Jingwei Zhang, Ziyuan Meng, Tonghua Hu, Fucai Liu, Long Cheng, Yong Xie, Jincheng Zhuang, Haifeng Feng*, Weichang Hao*, Dawei Shen*, Yi Du*, “Topological flat bands in two-dimensional breathing-kagome lattice Nb₃TeCl₇”. Advanced Materials 35, 2301790 (2023). 

11.      Zhicheng Jiang^#, Haiyang Ma^#, Wei Xia^#, Zhengtai Liu, Qian Xiao, Zhonghao Liu, Yichen Yang, Jianyang Ding, Zhe Huang, Jiayu Liu, Yuxi Qiao, Jishan Liu, Yingying Peng, Soohyun Cho*, Yanfeng Guo*, Jianpeng Liu*, and Dawei Shen*, “Observation of Electronic Nematicity Driven by the Three-Dimensional Charge Density Wave in Kagome Lattice KV₃Sb₅”. Nano Letters 23, 5625 (2023). 

12.      Soohyun Cho^#*, Soonsang Huh^#, Yuqiang Fang^#, Chenqiang Hua, Hua Bai, Zhicheng Jiang, Zhengtai Liu, Jishan Liu, Zhenhua Chen, Yuto Fukushima, Ayumi Harasawa, Kaishu Kawaguchi, Shik Shin, Takeshi Kondo, Yunhao Lu*, Gang Mu*, Fuqiang Huang*, and Dawei Shen*, “Direct observation of topological surface state in the topological superconductor 2M-WS₂”. Nano Letters 22, 8827 (2022).  

13.      W. L. Liu^#, X. Zhang^#, S. M. Nie^#, Z. T. Liu^#, X. Y. Sun, H. Y. Wang, J. Y. Ding, Q. Jiang, L. Sun, F. H. Xue, Z. Huang, H. Su, Y. C. Yang, Z. C. Jiang, X. L. Lu, J. Yuan, Soohyun Cho, J. S. Liu, Z. H. Liu, M. Ye, S. L. Zhang, H. M. Weng, Z. Liu, Y. F. Guo*, Z. J. Wang*, and D. W. Shen*, “Spontaneous ferromagnetism induced topological transition in EuB₆”. Physical Review Letters 129, 166402 (2022). 

14.      Xiangle Lu, Jishan Liu*, Nian Zhang, Binping Xie, Shuai Yang, Wanling Liu, Zhicheng Jiang, Zhe Huang, Yichen Yang, Jin Miao, Wei Li, Soohyun Cho, Zhengtai Liu, Zhonghao Liu and Dawei Shen*, “Dimensionality-controlled evolution of charge transfer energy in digital nickelates superlattices”. Advanced Science 9, 2105864 (2022).

15.      Soohyun Cho^#, Haiyang Ma^#, Wei Xia^#, Yichen Yang, Zhengtai Liu, ZheHuang, Zhicheng Jiang, Xiangle Lu, Jishan Liu, Zhonghao Liu, Jun Li, Jinghui Wang, Yi Liu, Jinfeng Jia, Yanfeng Guo*, Jianpeng Liu*, and Dawei Shen*, “Emergence of new van Hove singularities in the charge density wave state of a topological kagome metal RbV₃Sb₅”. Physical Review Letters 127, 236401 (2021). ESI Highly Cited Papers.

16.      Shuchun Huan^#, Shihao Zhang^#, Zhicheng Jiang^#, Hao Su, Hongyuan Wang, Xin Zhang, Yichen Yang, Zhengtai Liu, Xia Wang, Na Yu, Zhiqiang Zou, Dawei Shen*, Jianpeng Liu*, and Yanfeng Guo*, “Multiple Magnetic Topological Phases in Bulk van der Waals Crystal MnSb₄Te₇”. Physical Review Letters 126, 246601 (2021), Editors’ Suggestion. 

17.      Zhengtai Liu, Wanling Liu, Ruixiang Zhou, Songhua Cai, Yekai Song, Qi Yao, Xiangle Lu, Jishan Liu, Zhonghao Liu, Zhen Wang, Yi Zheng, Peng Wang, Zhi Liu, Gang Li*, Dawei Shen*, “Electron-plasmon interaction induced plasmonic-polaron band replication in epitaxial perovskite SrIrO₃ films”. Science Bulletin 66, 433 (2021). 

18.      Y. K. Song, G. W. Wang, S. C. Li, W. L. Liu, X. L. Lu, Z. T. Liu, Z. J. Li, J. S. Wen, Z. P. Yin*, Z. H. Liu*, and D. W. Shen*, “Photoemission Spectroscopic Evidence for the Dirac Nodal Line in the Monoclinic Semimetal SrAs3”, Physical Review Letters 124, 056402 (2020). 

19.      Bo Chen, Fucong Fei*, Dongqin Zhang, Bo Zhang, Wanling Liu, Shuai Zhang, Pengdong Wang, Boyuan Wei, Yong Zhang, Zewen Zuo, Jingwen Guo, Qianqian Liu, Zilu Wang, Xuchuan Wu, Junyu Zong, Xuedong Xie, Wang Chen, Zhe Sun, Shancai Wang, Yi Zhang, Minhao Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Fengqi Song*, Haijun Zhang*, Dawei Shen* & Baigeng Wang, “Intrinsic magnetic topological insulator phases in the Sb doped MnBi₂Te₄ bulks and thin flakes”, Nature communications 10, 4469 (2019). ESI Highly Cited Papers & Hot Papers.

20.      Q. Yao, D. W. Shen*, C. H. P. Wen, C. Q. Hua, L. Q. Zhang, N. Z. Wang, X. H. Niu, Q. Y. Chen, P. Dudin, Y. H. Lu, Y. Zheng, X. H. Chen, X. G. Wan, and D. L. Feng. “Charge transfer effects in naturally occurring van der Waals heterostructures (PbSe)_1.16(TiSe₂)_m (m=1, 2)”. Physical Review Letters 120, 106401 (2018). 

21.      Zhen Wang, Congcong Fan, Zhixuan Shen, Chenqiang Hua, Qifeng Hu, Feng Sheng, Yunhao Lu, Hanyan Fang, Zhizhan Qiu, Jiong Lu, Zhu-An Xu, D. W. Shen* and Yi Zheng†. “Defects controlled hole doping and multi-valley transport in SnSe single crystals”. Nature communications 9, 47 (2018). ESI Highly Cited Papers.