Brief Introduction

MA Xiaoguang is an Assistant Professor at The Center for Complex Flows and Soft Matter Research and Department of Physics. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degree from Sun Yat-Sen University. After receiving his Ph.D. in physics from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, he was appointed LRSM-Solvay Fellow at University of Pennsylvania, focusing on soft matters and complex fluids. He was also a co-investigator at Solvay's Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter Center and NASA's Advanced Colloids Experiment at the International Space Station. He already published 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, PNAS, Phys. Rev. Lett. and Nat. Phys. He serves as referee for Phys. Rev. Lett., ACS Nano, J. Fluid Mech., Phys. Rev. E, J. Chem. Phys. and Soft Matter.

Research Interests

Soft condensed matter physics, statistical physics, soft material mechanics, biophysics

Educational Background
B.A., Sun Yat-Sen University
M.S., Sun Yat-Sen university
Ph.D, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Professional Experience
Member of American Physical Society;
Referee for Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. E, Soft Matter, J. Chem. Phys.

Honors & Awards
Best Student Presentation Award, the 16th Conference of Physical Society of Hong Kong (2013);
Young Scientist Award, School of Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2014);
The Journal of Chemical Physics Editor's Choice Award, Division of Chemical Physics, American Physical Society (2020).

Selected Publication （*corresponding author）

1.K. L. Galloway, E. G. Teich, X. G. Ma, Ch. Kammer, I. R. Graham, N. C. Keim, C. Reina, D. J. Jerolmack, A. G. Yodh and P. E. Arratia, Relationships between structure, memory and flow in sheared disordered materials, Nature Physics 18, 565–570 (2022)

2.K. L. Galloway, X.-G. Ma, N. C. Keim, D. J. Jerolmack, A. G. Yodh, and P. E. Arratia, Scaling of relaxation and excess entropy in plastically deformed amorphous solids, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 117, 11887 (2020)

3.X. G. Ma*, J. Liu, Y. Zhang, P. Habdas, and A. G. Yodh, Excess entropy and long-time diffusion in colloidal fluids with short-range interparticle attraction, J. of Chem. Phys. 150, 144907 (2019) (JCP Editors’ Choice)

4.X. G. Ma, Z. S. Davidson, T. Still, R. Ivancic, S. S. Schoenholz, D. M. Sussman, A. J. Liu and A. G. Yodh, "Heterogeneous activation, local structure and softness in supercooled colloidal liquids," Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 028001 (2019) (Editors’ Suggestion)

5.X.-G. Ma, W. Chen, Z. Wang, Y. Peng, Y. Han, and P. Tong. Test of the universal scaling law of diffusion in colloidal monolayers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 078302 (2013)