Jensen Li 李贊恒

  • Senior Research Fellowship in 2022 at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Fellowship in 2005 at Imperial College London

About Jensen Li’s work

Professor Jensen Li works in physics, researching functional wave materials. Metamaterials promise to provide exotic material properties based on tailor-made resonating micro-structures. However, the resonating response of these materials are often subject to limited frequency bandwidth and it is a challenge to tune them in real time, preventing them from being widely adopted in practical situations.

There are two active approaches to breaking these barriers. One is through exploiting material gain and loss, known as non-Hermiticity, as an additional dimension, while the other is through exploiting the time dimension. By dynamically tuning the material properties in real-time with modulation speed comparable to the signal frequency, one can break time-reversal symmetry and achieve significant non-reciprocal effects and other new kinds of wave phenomena, known as time-varying metamaterials.

Professor Li’s goal is to develop the technologies required to construct metamaterials with both non-Hermiticity and time-varying capability by establishing the platforms in both electromagnetic and acoustic domains. The platforms will lead us to new physics and applications based on the unique capabilities of these metamaterials.

Biography

Professor Jensen Li is a Professor of physics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was previously a Senior Lecturer and a Reader in Photonics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the City University of Hong Kong. He did his postdoc at the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, UC Berkeley, and the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College. Professor Li earned his PhD and MPhil in Physics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Hong Kong.