Di Xiao
University of Washington
Di Xiao obtained his Bachelor degree in physics from Peking University and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. After a four-year stint at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he moved to Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. He joined the University of Washington in 2021, and holds professor positions in both the Department of Physics and Department of Materials Science & Engineering. Xiao is an expert in Berry phase effect, and pioneered the field of valleytronics. He was named a Cottrell Scholar by Research Corporation for Science Advancement in 2016, Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics in 2019, and has been a Thomson-Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2017.
