Baowen Li#
| Membership Number: | 4523 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/faculties/libaowen.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021/02 - : Chair Professor, Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China
- 2015/08 - 2023/6: Rennie Fanmily Endowed Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado University Boulder, USA
- 2014/02 - 2015/03: Russell Severance Springer (visiting) Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA
- 2007/01 - 2014/01 Full Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
- 2003/07 - 2006/12 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
- 2000/07 - 2003/06 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
- 1996/06 - 2000/06 Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University
- 1993/03 - 1996/06 Research Associate, Center for Theoretical Physics and Applied Math, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- 1990/08 - 1993/02 Max-Planck Ph.D Scholarship Recipient at Department of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Germany
- 1986/09 - 1990/02 Research Assistant, Institute of Acoustics, the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
Fields of Scholarship
- Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
- Phononics, control and manipulate heat due to phonons
- Thermal metamaterials: thermal cloak, thermal camouflage, thermal concentrator
- Transport of Phonons/Heat in low dimensional nano structures
- Topological phononics
- Complex networks and its application in finance and biology
- Thermal rectification and thermal transistor
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2017 Brillouin Medal from International Phononics Society
- 2015 - now Rennie Fanmily Endowed Professor, University of University Boulder, USA
- 2014/2015 Russell Severance Springer Professor, UC Berkeley, USA
- 2013 Elected Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
- 2008 Outstanding Scientist, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
- 2007 World Scientific Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, Singapore
- 2005 National Science Award, Singapore
- 2005 OCPA (Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers) Achievement in Asia Award
- 2004 Temasek Young Investigator Award, Singapore
- 2003 Young Researcher Award, National University of Singapore
