Dr. Lei Jin is a Research Associate Professor (Associate Researcher) in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He is a recipient of the Ministry of Education's Overseas Talent Program and the Guangdong Province Pearl River Young Top-notch Talent. She also serves as the Project Manager of the International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD) under the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), was named among the inaugural cohort of 2025 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Young Professional Ambassadors worldwide, a Youth Editorial Board Member of Materials Futures, a member of the Nano-Photovoltaic Display Sub-Technical Committee of the National Nanotechnology Standardization Committee, and a part-time Editor for Elsevier.

Her research has long focused on the design, controlled synthesis, and mechanistic study of colloidal nanocrystals, as well as their applications in optoelectronic conversion. She has received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, the INRS Outstanding Student Leadership Award, and a Certificate of Appreciation for Student Leaders from the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China. She has independently led and successfully concluded a FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellowship (Canada), the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Fund, the China Postdoctoral International Exchange Program (Dispatch), the Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation General Program, the Shenzhen Basic Research Special Program (Natural Science Foundation) Key Basic Research Project (as project lead), and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao C-type project. In recent years, he has published 67 papers in renowned international journals such as Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., and Adv. Funct. Mater., with total citations exceeding 2,350 and an H-index of 25 (Google Scholar).

Education

2014.09–2019.03: Ph.D. in Energy Materials Science, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Center for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Canada

2013.01–2014.09: M.Sc. in Energy Materials Science, INRS, Center for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Canada

2008.09–2012.07: B.Sc. in Applied Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, China

Work Experience

2026.09-Present Research Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

2023.09–2026.09: SUSTech President’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Southern University of Science and Technology

2020.05–2023.06: Joint-training Postdoctoral Fellow (Innovation Dispatch Program) at McGill University, Canada; FRQNT Scholar

2019.10–2023.06: Joint-training Postdoctoral Fellow at the Nano-Femto Lab, INRS, Canada

Research Areas

Her research focuses on the synthetic design of photoluminescent/electroluminescent quantum dots and the development of optoelectronic conversion devices. Key research directions include:

Photocatalytic technologies for green energy production (e.g., photo-induced hydrogen production for efficient energy conversion and storage);

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) and luminescent glass;

Quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLED);

Third-generation emerging solar cells, such as colloidal quantum dot solar cells and perovskite thin-film solar cells.

Representative Publication

1. Mingzhu Wang Lei Jin* Eco-friendly AgInGaS/ZnSe core/shell Quantum Dots for Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution, ACS AMI, in press

2. Yiwu Zhu, Lei Jin,* Yunpesng Wang, Zihao Deng and Xiao Wei Sun* A Direct Photolithography Strategy for Full-Color QLEDs via a Bisazide Crosslinker, Photonics, 2026, 13(2), 165 Published: February 8 2026. 

3. Xijian Duan, Wenda Zhang, Junjie Hao, Ronghuan Liu, Bing Xu, Lei Jin*, Lars Samuelson, Xiao Wei Sun, InP Quantum Dots with a Strain-Engineered Gradient Shell for Enhanced Optical Performance and Stability, Nano Letters, 2025, 25, 36, 13539-13548. First published August 29, 2025

4. De Peng Li, Lei Jin*, Xiao Wei Sun*, Inverted Red Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes with a Dual-Layer ZnO Electron Transport Layer, Nanoscale, 2026, 18, 4, 2097-2105. First published Dec 18, 2025

5. Mi Gu#, Depeng Li#, Jingrui Ma, Lei Jin*, Lars Samuelson*, Xiao Wei Sun* Deactivating Charged States in Colloidal Quantum Dots by Förster Resonance Energy Transfer, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2025, 127(14),144101. First published October 07 2025

6. Xiaofeng Pan, Qinhua Wang*, Lei Jin,* Yonghao Ni, Federico Rosei* Integrated paper-hydrogel structure for spontaneous and ultra-durable eco-friendly electricity generation ---Nano Energy，2025，136, 110730，Available online 31 January 2025

7. Fuli Zhao, Yanyan Cui, Xijian Duan, Lei Jin,* Tingchao He,* Hot Carrier Cooling and Multiphoton Absorption of Quasi-Type II ZnSeTe-based Quantum Dots, Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, 63(49) 23338–23343, Available online November 21, 2024

8. Yuanfu Zhang,* Yawei Chen, Lei Jin,* Xue Zhao, Qingwang Xue, Federico Rosei* Gold nanoparticles-wood nanohybrid as peroxidase-like for simple, selective and selective detection of mercury ion, Spectrochimica Acta, 2025, 332, 125804, First published January 31 2025

9. Xue Li, Lei Jin*, Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Federico Rosei, Jinhua Li, The Application of Carbon Dots in Crops for Sustainable Agriculture, ChemistryEurope ,2026, e202500224. First published: November 19, 2025 Editors' Choice: Spotlights

10. Lei Jin*, Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Xiao Wei Sun and Federico Rosei. Core-Shell Colloidal Quantum Dots for Energy Conversion, Advanced Energy Materials, 2024，2403574. First published: 28 October 2024

11. Lei Jin*, Gurpreet Singh Selopal*, Xin Tong, Dmytro F. Perepichka, Zhiming M. Wang*, Federico Rosei* Heavy-Metal-free Colloidal Quantum Dots: Progress and Opportunities in Solar Technologies，Advanced Materials, 2024, 36（33），2402912. First published: 23 June 2024

12. Lei Jin*, Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Xin Liu, Daniele Benetti, and Federico Rosei* Perovskite Nanocrystals: opportunities in luminescent solar concentrators. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34(40), 2405653. First published: 28 June 2024

13. Lei Jin* Ehsan Hamzehpoor, Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Jiabin Liu, Pawan Kumar, Daniele Benetti, Xin Tong, Dmytro F. Perepichka,* Zhiming M. Wang,* Federico Rosei* Harnessing the Synergetic Effects of Ag, Mn Dopants in Eco-Friendly Ultraviolet Selective Quantum Dots for Luminescent Solar Concentrators, Small Methods, 2024, 2301695. DOI:10.1002/smtd.202301695. First published: 28 March 2024

14. Lei Jin*, Ehsan Hamzehpoor, Jiabin Liu, Xin Liu, Daniele Benetti, Gurpreet Selopal, Dmytro Perepichka*, Zhiming Wang*, Federico Rosei*, Solar light selective-harvesting eco-friendly colloidal quantum dots for transparent luminescent solar concentrators, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023，11(44), 23821. Accepted 12th October 2023

15. Lei Jin, Jiabin Liu, Xin Liu, Daniele Benetti, Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Xin Tong, Ehsan Hamzehpoor, Faying Li, Dmytro F. Perepichka*, Zhiming M. Wang*, Federico Rosei* Rational Control of Near-Infrared Colloidal Thick-Shell Eco-friendly Quantum Dots for Solar Energy Conversion, Small Methods 2023, 8(2): 2300133. First published: 19 April 2023 

16. Lei Jin, Haiguang Zhao*, Zhiming M. Wang, Federico Rosei* Quantum dots-based photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution from water splitting. Advanced Energy Materials, 2021, 11(12): 2003233. (Inside back cover) First published: 25 Mar, 2021

17. Lei Jin, Ali Seifitokaldani*. In Situ Spectroscopic Methods for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction. Catalysts, 2020, 10(5), 481. First published: 28 April 2020

18. Lei Jin, Gianluca Sirigu, Xin Tong, Andrea Camellini, Andrea Parisini, Giuseppe Nicotra, Corrado Spinella, Haiguang Zhao, Shuhui Sun, Vittorio Morandi, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Federico Rosei, and Alberto Vomiero. Engineering interfacial structure in “Giant” PbS/CdS quantum dots for photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion. Nano Energy, 2016, 30, 531–541. First published: December 01, 2016

19. Lei Jin, Bandar AlOtaibi, Daniele Benetti, Shun Li, Haiguang Zhao, Zetian Mi, Alberto Vomiero, and Federico Rosei. Near-Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dots for Efficient and Durable Photoelectrochemical Solar-Driven Hydrogen Production. Advanced Science, 2016, 3, 1500345. (Back cover) First published: 08 February 2016

20. Lei Jin, Haiguang Zhao, Dongling Ma, Alberto Vomiero, and Federico Rosei*. Dynamics of semiconducting nanocrystal uptake into mesoporous TiO2 thick films by electrophoretic deposition. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3, 847-856. First published 12 Nov 2014

21. Pawan Kumar, Lei Jin (co-first author), Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Omar Abdelkarim, Jiabin Liu, David Barba, Aycan Yurtsever, Zhiming M. Wang, and Federico Rosei Highly Luminescent All-Inorganic Lead-free AgInS2/ZnS QDs for multicolor and multistage anti-counterfeiting and Encryption, Nano Materials Science, 2026, 8（1), 1-10. 25 First published: November 2024

22. Fabiola Navarro-Pardo, Lei Jin (co-first author), Rajesh Adhikari, Xin Tong, Daniele Benetti, Kaustubh Basu, Srinivas Vanka, Haiguang Zhao, Zetian Mi, Shuhui Sun, Victor Castano, Alberto Vomiero, and Federico Rosei. Nanofiber-supported CuS nanoplatelets as high efficiency counter electrodes for quantum dot-based photoelectrochemical hydrogen production. Mater. Chem. Front. 2017, 1, 65. (Inside cover) First published: 24 Oct 2016

23. Rajesh Adhikari, Lei Jin (co-first author), Fabiola Navarro-Pardo, Daniele Benetti, Bandar AlOtaibi, Srinivas Vanka, Haiguang Zhao, Zetian Mi, Alberto Vomiero, and Federico Rosei. High efficiency, Pt-free photoelectrochemical cells for solar hydrogen generation based on “giant” quantum dot. Nano Energy, 2016, 27, 265–274. First published 06 July 2016