Sep.1980 -Jul.1984, Bachelor of Laser, Department of Optics, Shandong University
Sep.1987-Jul. 1990, Master of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sep.1990 -Jul.1994, Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sep.1994 -Aug.1999, Assistant, Institute of Metal Materials, Tohoku University, Japan
Jun.1996-May.1997, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, USA
Aug.1999 -Jul.2007, Researcher, PhD supervisor, SF04 research group leader, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sep.1999 -Sep.2005, Director, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Feb. 2000-Mar.2000 , Visiting Professor, IBM Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland
In May 2005, he worked in the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University and served as the Deputy Dean of the Department of Physics, Dean of the School of Science, and Dean of the Department of Physics;
From 2011 to 2016, he was the director of the State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University;
Mar. 2013- May 2013, he served as Assistant to the President and Dean of Research Institute of Tsinghua University;
May 2013 -Nov.2020, served as member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Tsinghua University;
In December 2017, served as Dean of Beijing Institute of Quantum Information Science ;
In November 2020, served as the President of Southern University of Science and Technology.

His research interests include scanning tunnelingmicrocopy/spectroscopy, molecular beam epitaxy, low-dimensional and interface-related superconductivity, topological insulators, and quantum size effects in various low-dimensional structures. He has authored/coauthored ~500 papers with a citation of ~23000 times. He has presented 180 plus invited/keynote/plenary talks at international meetings/conferences. Currently, he is the Associate Editors-in-Chief of National Science Review, the Editors-in-Chief of Surface Review & Letters, and on the Editorial Board of Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, AIP Advances, Surface Science Reports and Nano Letters.

2019, Experimental discovery of quantum anomalous Hall effect, The first prize of National Natural Science Award
2011, Controlled growth and quantum manipulation of thin film/nanostructures, The second prize of the National Natural Science Award
2004, Atomic scale film/nanostructure growth kinetics: theory and experiment, The second prize of the National Natural Science Award
2003, First Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award

1.W. H. Zhang, Y. Sun, J. S. Zhang, F. S. Li, M. H. Guo, Y. F. Zhao, H. M. Zhang, J. P. Peng, Y. Xing, H. C. Wang, T. Fujita, A. Hirata, Z. Li, H. Ding, C. J. Tang, M.Wang, Q. Y. Wang, K. He, S. H. Ji, X. Chen, J. F. Wang, Z. C. Xia, L. Li, Y. Y. Wang, J. Wang, L. L. Wang, M. W. Chen, Q. K. Xue, and X. C. Ma, “Direct Observation of High-Temperature Superconductivity in One-Unit-Cell FeSe Films", Chin. Phys. Lett. 31, 017401 (2014).
2.C. Z. Chang, J. S. Zhang, X. Feng, J. Shen, Z. C. Zhang, M. H. Guo, K. Li, Y. B. Ou, P. Wei, L. L. Wang, Z. Q. Ji, Y. Feng, S. H. Ji, X. Chen, J. F. Jia, X. Dai, Z. Fang, S. C. Zhang, K. He, Y. Y. Wang, L. Lu, X. C. Ma and Q. K. Xue, “Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator”, Science 340, 167 (2013).
3.Q. Y. Wang, Z. Li, W. H. Zhang, Z. C. Zhang, J. S. Zhang, W. Li, H. Ding, Y. B.
Ou, P. Deng, K. Chang, J. Wen, C. L. Song, K. He, J. F. Jia, S. H. Ji, Y. Y. Wang,
L. L. Wang, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, and Q. K. Xue, "Interface-Induced High-Temperature Superconductivity in Single Unit-Cell FeSe Films on SrTiO3", Chin. Phys. Lett. 29, 037402 (2012).
4.C. L. Song, Y. L. Wang, P. Cheng, Y. P. Jiang, W. Li, T. Zhang, Z. Li, K. He, L. L. Wang, J. F. Jia, H. H. Hung, C. J. Wu, X. C. Ma, X. Chen and Q. K. Xue, “Direct Observation of Nodes and Twofold Symmetry in FeSe Superconductor”, Science 332, 1410 (2011).
5.C. L. Song, Y. L. Wang, Y. X. Ning, J. F. Jia, X. Chen, B. Sun, P. Zhang, Q. K. Xue and X. C. Ma, “Tailoring Phthalocyanine Metalation Reaction by Quantum Size Effect”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 1456 (2010).
6.T. Zhang, P. Cheng, W. J. Li, Y. J. Sun, G. Wang, X. G. Zhu, K. He, L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, X. Chen, Y. Y. Wang, Y. Liu, H. Q. Lin, J. F. Jia and Q. K. Xue, “Superconductivity in One-Atomic-Layer Metal Films Grown on Si(111)”, Nat. Phys. 6, 104 (2010).
7.P. Jiang, X. C. Ma, Y. X. Ning, C. L. Song, X. Chen, J. F. Jia and Q. K. Xue, “Quantum Size Effect Directed Selective Self-Assembling of Cobalt Phthalocyanine on Pb(111) Thin Films”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 7790 (2008).
8.Y. S. Fu, S. H. Ji, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, R. Wu, C. C. Wang, W. H. Duan, X. H. Qiu, B. Sun, P. Zhang, J. F. Jia and Q. K. Xue, “Manipulating the Kondo Resonance through Quantum Size Effects”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256601 (2007).
9.X. C. Ma, P. Jiang, Y. Qi, J. F. Jia, Y. Yang, W. H. Duan, W. X. Li, X. H. Bao, S. B. Zhang and Q. K. Xue, “Experimental Observation of Quantum Oscillation of Surface Chemical Reactivities”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 9204 (2007).
10.L. Y. Ma, L. Tang, Z. L. Guan, K. He, K. An, X. C. Ma, J. F. Jia, Q. K. Xue, Y. Han, S. Huang and F. Liu, “Quantum Size Effect on Adatom Surface Diffusion”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266102 (2006).
11.X. Y. Bao, Y. F. Zhang, Y. P. Wang, J. F. Jia, Q. K. Xue, X. C. Xie and Z. X. Zhao, “Quantum Size Effects on the Perpendicular Upper Critical Field in Ultrathin Lead Films”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247005 (2005).
12. Y. F. Zhang, J. F. Jia, T. Z. Han, Z. Tang, Q. T. Shen, Y. Guo, Z. Q. Qiu and Q. K. Xue, “Band Structure and Oscillatory Electron-Phonon Coupling of Pb Thin Films Determined by Atomic-Layer-Resolved Quantum-Well States”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096802 (2005).
13. Y. Guo, Y. F. Zhang, X. Y. Bao, T. Z. Han, Z. Tang, L. X. Zhang, W. G. Zhu, E. G. Wang, Q. Niu, Z. Q. Qiu, J. F. Jia, Z. X. Zhao and Q. K. Xue, “Superconductivity Modulated by Quantum Size Effects”, Science 306, 1915 (2004).