Tenured Professor

Dawei Di is a full professor at the ZJU-UIUC Institute/College of Optical Science and Engineering, and Deputy Director of the International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, Zhejiang University. He was an honoree of MIT Technology Review "Innovators Under 35" (global, 2019) and "Innovators Under 35, China" (2018). Dawei Di obtained a PhD (in Engineering) from the University of New South Wales, Australia and a second PhD (in Physics) from the University of Cambridge, UK. His doctoral supervisors include renowned scientists in optoelectronics and semiconductor physics, Professor Sir Richard H. Friend (FRS, FREng, FIEE, FInstP, Kt) (Cavendish Professor of Physics), and Scientia Professor Martin A. Green (FRS, AM, FIEEE, FAA, FTSE). Dawei Di’s research interests span from the exciton spin dynamics in organic light-emitting molecules, to the physics of record-breaking organic and perovskite optoelectronic devices (LEDs and solar cells). He published more than 70 papers in leading scientific journals including Nature (3), Science, Nature Photonics (3), Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications (3), and Science Advances (2). He filed 15 international patents, wrote 3 book chapters, and translated 3 textbooks. His work has been featured in research news and highlights in high-profile journals such as Nature, Nature Photonics and Nature Materials.

Perovskite and organic optoelectronics, Light-emitting diodes, Semiconductor lasers, Solar cells, Semiconductor device physics