Dr. Jingwen Ma is an Associate Professor, Researcher, and Doctoral Supervisor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. His research focuses on photonic crystal lasers, integrated optoelectronic chips, nanophotonics, exciton polaritons, and related frontier topics in condensed matter physics. He has published numerous papers as first or corresponding author in leading international journals, including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Light: Science & Applications, and Advanced Materials. His work has been selected among the Top 30 Advances in Optics of the year and widely covered by internationally renowned scientific and mainstream media such as Phys.org, EurekAlert, ScienceNet.cn, Sing Tao Headline, and Ming Pao.

Group website: https://www.jwma-lab.com/

Professional Experience

· 2024–2026   Research Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong

· 2022–2024   Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Hong Kong

· 2021–2022   Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

· 2026–present   Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

Education

· 2016–2021   Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong

· 2011–2015   B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Representative Publication

1. Jingwen Ma∗, Xiong Wang∗, Yuanhao Gong, Chong Hu, Qi Wang, Kai Feng, Zemeng Lin, Teruya Ishihara, Nicholas Fang, Xiaobo Yin, Shuang Zhang, Zuxin Chen†, Xiaoze Liu†, Xiaodong Cui, Xiang Zhang†, “Excitonic negative refraction mediated by magnetic orders,” Nature Nanotechnology, 21(3): 374–379, 2026.

2. Jingwen Ma, Xiaobo Yin†, “Stacking the future of heterogeneous optoelectronics,” Science, 387: 6738, Mar. 2025.

3. Jingwen Ma, Ding Jia, Li Zhang, Yi-jun Guan, Yong Ge, Hong-xiang Sun†, Shou-qi Yuan, Hongsheng Chen, Yihao Yang†, and Xiang Zhang†, “Observation of vortex-string chiral modes in metamaterials, Nature Communications, 15: 2332, Mar. 2024.

4. Jingwen Ma∗, Taojie Zhou∗, Mingchu Tang∗, Haochuan Li, Zhan Zhang, Xiang Xi, Mickael Martin, Thierry Baron, Huiyun Liu, Zhaoyu Zhang†, Siming Chen†, and Xiankai Sun†, “Room-temperature continuous-wave Dirac-vortex topological lasers on silicon,” Light: Science & Applications, 12: 255, Oct. 2023.

5. Jingwen Ma∗, Xiang Xi∗, Yuan Li, and Xiankai Sun†, “Nanomechanical topological insulators with an auxiliary orbital degree of freedom,” Nature Nanotechnology, 16(5): 576–583, May 2021.