1.         Advanced materials design and preparation, including anomalous thermal expansion materials, magnetic semiconductors and thermoelectric materials, et al;

2.         Synchrotron X-ray and neutron characterization and structural analysis, including diffraction, total scattering, X-ray absorption spectrum, inelastic scattering, et al.

3.         Localized correlated disorder analysis;

4.         Charge transport models in weakly correlated systems.

2022 – Present  Xi'an Jiaotong University, China             Professor

2019 – 2022    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan         JSPS Research Fellow  

2018 – 2019    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  Postdoc  

2016 – 2018  Northwestern University, United States              CSC Joint Ph.D

2015 – 2018  University of Science and Technology Beijing, China   Ph.D.

2012 – 2015  University of Science and Technology Beijing, China   M.A.

2008 – 2012  University of Science and Technology Beijing, China   B.A.

2019  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship, JSPS

2014  President medal, University of Science and Technology Beijing

2014  National Scholarship for Graduate Students

2009  National Encouragement scholarship (2)

Full publications list and Citation

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=H0unjkMAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F7wlGsawNFc8K5vSd94kTJeJzREga2iRLCPv1Eo1BeoUJtQxLDhOA9EudlFX7OqJWLFPvISTSRirVKIy5mDSncclg2707nRWxHpJvpfdk5gegLq0aM

Selected Publications

1. Lei Hu*, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Qingyu Yan*, et al. High thermoelectric performance enabled by convergence of nested conduction bands in Pb₇Bi₄Se₁₃ with low thermal conductivity, Nature Communications, 2021, 12(1): 4793.

2. Lei Hu, Qingyu Yan*, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis*, et al. High Thermoelectric Performance through Crystal Symmetry Enhancement in Triply Doped Diamondoid Compound Cu₂SnSe₃, Advanced Energy Materials, 2021, 11(42): 2100661.

3. Lei Hu, Jun Chen*, Xianran Xing, et al. Localized Symmetry Breaking for Tuning Thermal Expansion in ScF₃ Nanoscale Frameworks, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140(13): 4477-4480

4. Lei Hu, Jun Chen*, Xianran Xing, et al. Atomic Linkage Flexibility Tuned Isotropic Negative, Zero, and Positive Thermal Expansion in MZrF₆ (M = Ca, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Zn), Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138(44): 14530-14533.

5. Lei Hu, Jun Chen*, Xianran Xing*, et al. New Insights into the Negative Thermal Expansion: Direct Experimental Evidence for the “Guitar-String” Effect in Cubic ScF₃, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138(27): 8320-8323.

6. Lei Hu, Jun Chen*, Xianran Xing*, et al. High-Curie-Temperature Ferromagnetism in (Sc,Fe)F₃ Fluorides and its Dependence on Chemical Valence, Advanced Materials, 2015, 27(31): 4592-4596.

7. Lei Hu, Jun Chen*, Xianran Xing*, et al. Zero Thermal Expansion and Ferromagnetism in Cubic Sc_1-xM_xF₃ (M = Ga, Fe) over a Wide Temperature Range, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136(39): 13566-13569.