Professor
University of California, Irvine
(1) Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI), University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 (2) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
Xiaoqing Pan received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Nanjing University, China in 1982 and 1985, his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Saarland, Germany in 1991. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Max Plank Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart, Germany from 1991 until he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He was the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Endowed Chair of Engineering and the Director of Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory at the University of Michigan prior to joining the University of California, Irvine in 2015 as the Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Physics & Astronomy. He is also the inaugural Director of the Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI) and the founding Director of the Center for Complex Active Materials (CCAM – an NSF MRSEC). His contributions in electron microscopy and materials science include mapping ferroelectric polarization, probing nanoscale switching dynamics under applied field, imaging charge density and phonon dynamics at single defect and interface in complex materials. These approaches have led to discoveries of intriguing new phenomena and properties, such as topological polarization states (polar vortices and skyrmions), domain wall conductions, and phonon dynamics at a single defect. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers. He was recognized as one of the Clarivate’s most highly cited researchers in 2020 (the top 1% by citations by field). He has given more than 230 invited talks at national and international scientific conferences, and over 200 invited seminars. He received many awards and recognitions including the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, and been among the elected Fellows of the American Ceramic Society, American Physical Society, Microscopy Society of America, and the Materials Research Society.