Jia Li

Jia Leo Li is a condensed matter experimentalist specializing in low-temperature electronic systems in low-dimensional materials. His research focuses on emergent quantum phenomena in 2D materials and their van der Waals structures. Before joining UT Austin, he was an associate professor of physics at Brown University. His work has been recognized with a Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and Brown University’s Salamon Faculty Award for scholarly excellence. Li received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University.