Essential Information
Name: Xiuyang Xia
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: xiaxy@sustech.edu.cn
Office: College of Science P5094
Research Field: Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics, and Statistical Mechanics
Education background
Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2018, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, B.S. in Polymer Materials and Engineering
Aug. 2018 – Apr. 2023, Nanyang Technological University, Ph.D. in Physics
Working experience
Jun. 2023 – Oct. 2023, Nanyang Technological University, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dec. 2023 – Nov. 2025, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
Jan. 2026 – Present, Southern University of Science and Technology, Assistant Professor
Papers
ORCID | Google Scholar
[1] X. X.#, Yuhan Peng#, Ka Ki Li, Ran Ni*, Designed self-assembly of programmable colloidal atom-electron equivalents, Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 078101 (2025) [Featured by Physics World: DNA as a molecular architect]
[2] Siyu Wan#, X. X.#, Yutong Gao, Heyang Zhang, Zhebin Zhang, Fangyue Wu, Xuesong Wu, Dong Yang, Tongtao Li*, Jianfeng Li*, Ran Ni*, Angang Dong*, Curvature-guided depletion stabilizes Kagome superlattices of nanocrystals, Science 387, 978 (2025) [Highlighted by Science: Tessellated with tiny dumbbells]
[3] Qionghai Chen#, X. X.#, Wanhui Huang, Liqun Zhang, Ran Ni*, Jun Liu*, Topological Programmability of Isomerizable Polymers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048101 (2024)
[4] X. X., Ran Ni*, Designing superselectivity in linker-mediated multivalent nanoparticle adsorption, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118202 (2024)
[5] Tongtao Li#, X. X.#, Guanhong Wu, Qingfu Cai, Xuanyu Lyu, Jing Ning, Jing Wang, Min Kuang, Yuchi Yang, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Ran Ni*, Dong Yang*, Angang Dong*, Mismatched ligand density enables ordered assembly of mixed-dimensional, cross-species materials, Sci. Adv. 8, eabq0969 (2022)
[6] Qunli Lei#, X. X.#, Juan Yang, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Ran Ni*, Entropy-Controlled Crosslinking in Linker-Mediated Vitrimers, PNAS 117, 27111 (2020)
[7] X. X., Hao Hu, Massimo Pica Ciamarra*, Ran Ni*, Linker-mediated self-assembly of mobile DNA coated colloids, Sci. Adv. 6, eaaz6921 (2020)
