Jensen Tsan Hang LI

Research interest

Prof. Jensen Li’s research revolves around various extraordinary optical phenomena given by metamaterials and photonic crystals. His current interests are in transformation optics, metasurfaces, non-Hermitian optics and complex media. He is keen in extending the concepts of metamaterials to acoustics and elastic waves. In the optical regime, his group works on optical metasurfaces in manipulating spin-orbit coupling of light, surface-wave holograms, non-Hermitian exceptional points, and recently on quantum optical phenomena with metasurfaces.

Biography

Prof. Jensen Li obtained his Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong in 1998 followed by his MPhil and PhD in Physics from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2000 and 2004 respectively. During 2005 - 2007, Prof. Li worked in Imperial College London, with support from Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. From 2009 to 2013, he shifted to the City University of Hong Kong as Assistant Professor. In 2013, he moved to the University of Birmingham as a senior lecturer and became a reader in photonics. He joined HKUST in 2017 and is currently a Professor of the Department of Physics.