Rate My Professor Nanlin Wang

Wang's research focuses on infrared and optical spectroscopy, time-domain terahertz spectroscopy, and ultrafast pump-probe techniques to investigate unconventional superconductivity, crystal growth of novel superconductors, competing orders, and collective phenomena in strongly correlated electron systems, including transition metal oxides, chalcogenides, intermetallic compounds, heavy fermions, and three-dimensional Dirac/Weyl semimetals. He has garnered major awards such as the First Prize of China's State Natural Science Award (2013), Fellowship of the American Physical Society (2012), Ye Qisun Award of the Chinese Physical Society (2009), Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation (2009), and multiple recognitions as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate (2014-2018). Notable publications include 'Magneto-infrared spectroscopy of Landau levels and Zeeman splitting of three-dimensional massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5' (Physical Review Letters, 2015), 'Origin of the Spin Density Wave Instability in AFe2As2 (A=Ba,Sr) as Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy' (Physical Review Letters, 2008), 'Room-temperature non-volatile optical manipulation of polar order in a charge density wave' (Nature Communications, 2024), and 'Collapse of density wave and emergence of superconductivity in pressurized La4Ni3O10' (Nature Communications, 2025). With over 270 publications and more than 13,000 citations, Wang has profoundly impacted the field of quantum materials. He previously directed the Key Laboratory of Extreme Conditions Physics at the Institute of Physics, CAS, and served on the IUPAP C5 Commission for Low Temperature Physics.