Academic Appointments

2022 – now: Postdoc Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS), Germany
Supervisor: Dr. David Zwicker

Education

2018 – 2023: PhD in Applied Physics (Cum Laude)
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands
Supervisors: Prof. Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Prof. Cornelis Storm

2016 – 2018: MPhil in Physics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China
Supervisor: Prof. Penger Tong

2012 – 2016: BSc in Physics
Nanjing University (NJU), China

Honors and Awards

  • ICMS PhD Publication Award, 2021
  • Best Poster Award, Annual ICMS Outreach Symposium, 2018
  • National Scholarship (top 1%), 2014

Presentations and Posters

  • Coexistence of patterned phases in chemically active multicomponent mixtures, DPG Dresden, Germany, China, 2026 (poster)
  • Controlling multi-phase coexistence of condensates by physical interactions and chemical reactions, CAS-MPG Summer School, Shenzhen, China, 2025 (talk)
  • Influence of physical interactions and chemical reactions on phase separation and pattern formation, ITP, CAS, Beijing, China, 2025 (invited talk)
  • Net charge controls condensate size, DPG Regensburg, Germany, 2025 (talk)
  • Droplet size control by charge asymmetry, CECAM, Liyang, China, 2024 (talk)
  • Condensate size control by charge asymmetry, Liquid Matter Conference, Mainz, Germany, 2024 (poster)
  • A generalized mode-coupling theory of the complex dynamics of glass-forming liquids, Schott, Mainz, Germany, 2024 (invited talk)
  • Influence of physical interactions on spatiotemporal patterns, Gordon Research Seminar & Gordon Research Conference, Switzerland, 2024 (poster and talk)
  • Influence of physical interactions on spatiotemporal patterns, DPG Berlin, Germany, 2024 (contributed talk)
  • Unraveling the role of physical interactions in multicomponent phase separation, DPG Berlin, Germany, 2024 (poster)
  • 物理相互作用对相分离和时空斑图的影响, 松山湖材料实验室粤港澳交叉科学中心, China, 2023 (invited talk)
  • 玻璃化转变中结构与动力学关系, 第十二届全国软物质与生命物质物理学术会议, China, 2022 (contributed talk)
  • Many-body correlations are non-negligible in simple glassformers, CECAM Mixed-Gen Season 2 Session 5, 2022 (poster → oral); APS March Meeting 2022 (contributed talk)
  • The glass transition for sticky hard spheres from first principles, Physics@Veldhoven, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, 2021 (contributed talk)
  • The glass transition for hard spheres from first principles, 26th Dutch Soft Matter Meeting, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2019 (contributed talk)
  • Slow or Fast, Strong or Fragile: Generalized Mode-Coupling Theory of the Glass Transition for Hard Spheres, International Workshop on Glass Physics, Beijing, China, 2019; Annual ICMS Outreach Symposium, 2018 (poster)
  • Analysis of potential landscape of colloidal diffusion using the Markov state model, Joint Annual Conference of Physical Societies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Macao, China, 2018 (contributed talk)

Supervised Projects

Master Project

  1. Inhomogeneous generalized mode-coupling theory – Corentin Laudicina, 2020–2021

Bachelor Projects

  1. Simulation of cell spheroid fusion – Sebastiaan Nabbe, 2022
  2. Aging of passive and active glasses using machine learning Casper Smit & Samantha Visbeek, 2021
  3. To catch a killer: Identifying active particles using machine learning – Xander Smeets, 2021
  4. Mode-coupling theory of quantum glass – Rick Jansen, 2021
  5. Multi-point density correlations of supercooled liquid – Frederiko Burger, 2021
  6. Theory of spin glasses – Robbie Kloonen, 2020
  7. The glass transition in infinite dimensions – Jesse Moes, 2020
  8. Generation and dynamics of supercooled liquids through Monte-Carlo swap – Gilles Bonné, 2019
  9. Ultrastable glasses in the augmented ensemble – Arthur de Jong, 2019
  10. Improved sampling algorithms for generalized mode-coupling theory – Stijn Peereboom, 2019
  11. Structure of sticky hard spheres – Jordy Milder, 2019