Research focus

Superconductivity, strongly correlated electron systems, topological states of matter, scanning tunneling microscopy, low-temperature physics.

We have several fully-funded PhD and postdoc opening positions in condensed matter physics (starting in 2025). Please email your CV to Dr Shuqiu Wang (shuqiucwang@gmail.com) if you are interested.

Experience

Since 2023.12  Lecturer/Assistant Professor at University of Bristol

2022-2023       Visiting scientist at Cornell University

2019-2023       Postdoc at University of Oxford with Séamus Davis

2015-2019       PhD at University of Oxford with Martin Castell

Award

2025-2028       UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award

2024                Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for Europe 

Selected publications

[1] Pair Wavefunction Symmetry in UTe2 from Zero-Energy Surface State Visualization. 
arXiv 2501.16636, to appear in Science, 2025.
Q. Gu†, S. Wang†, J. P. Carroll†, K. Zhussupbekov†, N. Butch, S. Ran, J. Paglione, X. Liu, J.C. S. Davis, and D-H. Lee.

[2] Discovery of Orbital Ordering in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x,
Nature Materials 23, 492–498 (2024)
Shuqiu Wang†✉, Niall Kennedy†, Kazuhiro Fujita, Shin-ichi Uchida, Hiroshi Eisaki, Peter D Johnson, JC Séamus Davis✉, Shane M O'Mahony

[3] Detection of a Pair Density Wave State in UTe2,
Nature, 618, 921–927, 2023. 
Qiangqiang Gu†, Joseph P Carroll†, Shuqiu Wang†✉, Sheng Ran, Christopher Broyles, Hasan Siddiquee, Nicholas P Butch, Shanta R Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, JC Séamus Davis✉, Xiaolong Liu✉

Press release: Physics World, Nature News & Views, Oxford news. 

[4] Scattering interference signature of a pair density wave state in the cuprate pseudogap phase,
Nature Communications 12, 6087, 2021
Shuqiu Wang†, Peayush Choubey†, Yi Xue Chong†, Weijiong Chen, Wangping Ren, H Eisaki, Shin-ichi Uchida, Peter J Hirschfeld, JC Séamus Davis✉