Dr. Zhe Qu received his double B.S. degrees in Material Physics and Computer Science and Technology in 2001, and his Ph.D. degree in Condensed Mater Physics in 2006 (supervisor: Prof. Yuheng Zhang), all from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). After a two-year postdoctoral fellow working at Tulane University (supervisor: Prof. Zhiqiang Mao), he started his independent research career at USTC as an associated professor. At the end of 2009, he moved to Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and served as an associate professor at High Magnetic Field Laboratory (CHMFL). He was promoted to a full professor in March 2015. He is a member of YIPA-CAS since 2011 and served as the Editorial Board member of Analysis and Testing Technology and Instruments since 2019.
With funding supports from NSFC, MOST and CAS, Dr. Qu has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers mainly including Nat. Commun., Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B/Mater., Appl. Phys. Lett. and ACS Nano etc.

Research Interest
Dr. Qu’s research interest is novel magnetic materials, such as topological magnetic materials, two-dimensional magnetic materials and geometry frustrated magnetic materials, and physical devices based on these materials. His research mainly focus on the design and fabrication of these novel materials and devices, and the exploration of their emergent physics.

Recent Publications

1. Xitong Xu, Jia-Xin Yin, Wenlong Ma, Hung-Ju Tien, Xiao-Bin Qiang, P. V. Sreenivasa Reddy, Huibin Zhou, Jie Shen, Hai-Zhou Lu, Tay-Rong Chang, Zhe Qu*, and Shuang Jia*, Topological charge-entropy scaling in kagome Chern magnet TbMn₆Sn₆, Nature Communications 13, 1197 (2022).
2. Jie Shen(沈洁), Xitong Xu(许锡童), Miao He(何苗), Yonglai Liu(刘永来)，Yuyan Han(韩玉岩), and Zhe Qu(屈哲)*, Spin freezing in the van der Waals material Mn₂Ga₂S₅, Chinese Physics B 31, 067105 (2022). (Selected as Highlight of CPB and IOP Featured Articles)
3. Meng Song, Jun Zhao, Caixing Liu, Miao He, Yihao Wang, Yuyan Han, Langsheng Ling, Liang Cao, Lei Zhang*, Zhe Qu*, and Yimin Xiong*, Critical behavior and strongly anisotropic interactions in PrMn₂Ge₂, Applied Physics Letters 120, 092402 (2022).
4. Zhe Wang, Lin Hu*, Langsheng Lin, Yuyan Han, Ning Hao, Jingtao Xu, Qianwang Chen, and Zhe Qu*, Defect-induced ferromagnetism in a S=1/2 quasi-one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain compound, Scientific Reports 11, 14442 (2021).
5. Wen-Jun Wang(王文君), Xi-Tong Xu(许锡童), Jie Shen(沈洁), Zhe Wang(王哲), Shi-Le Zhang(张仕乐), and Zhe Qu(屈哲)*, Spin-phonon coupling in van der Waals antiferromagnet VOCl, Chinese Physics B 30, 107502 (2021).
6. Bingjie Liu, Zhe Wang, Youming Zou, Shiming Zhou, Hexuan Li, Jiemin Xu, Lei Zhang, Jingtao Xu, Mingliang Tian, Haifeng Du, Yuheng Zhang, and Zhe Qu*, Field-induced tricritical behavior in the Néel-type skyrmion host GaV₄S₈, Physical Review B 102, 094431 (2020).
7. Jie-Min Xu (许劼敏), Shu-Yang Wang (王舒阳), Wen-Jun Wang (王文君), Yong-Hui Zhou (周永惠), Xu-Liang Chen (陈绪亮), Zhao-Rong Yang (杨昭荣) and Zhe Qu (屈哲)*, Possible Tricritical Behavior and Anomalous Lattice Softening in van der Waals Itinerant Ferromagnet Fe₃GeTe₂ under High Pressure, Chinese Physics Letters 37, 076202 (2020).
8. Long Ma, Z. Wang, L. Hu*, Z. Qu*, N. Hao, and Li Pi*, Magnetic field tuning of quantum spin excitations in a weakly coupled S=1/2 Heisenberg spin chain as seen from NMR, Physical Review B 100. 125126 (2019).
9. Hexuan Li, Wenshuai Gao, Liran Shi, Zhongwen Ouyang, Zhengcai Xia, Zhe Wang, Bingjie Liu, Youming Zou, Lu Yu, Lei Zhang, Li Pi, Zhe Qu*, and Yuheng Zhang, High field magnetic properties of the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet AgCrS₂, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 489, 165409 (2019).
10. Tianle Zhang#, Yimeng Wang#, Hexuan Li#, Fang Zhong, Jia Shi, Minghui Wu, Zhaoyang Sun, Wanfu Shen, Bin Wei, Weida Hu, Xingfeng Liu, Li Huang, Chunguang Hu, Zhongchang Wang, Chengbao Jiang, Shengxue Yang*, Qing-ming Zhang* and Zhe Qu*, Magnetism and Optical Anisotropy in van der Waals Antiferromagnetic Insulator CrOCl, ACS Nano 13, 11353 (2019).
11. Xueli Xu#, Jin Peng#, Junpei Zhng, Zongwei Ma, Cheng Chen, Junbo Han, Bingjie Liu, Lingfang Lin, Xiaoshan Wu, Zhiqiang Mao, Zhe Qu*, and Zhigao Sheng*, Optical spectroscopy study of Ca₃(Ru_0.91Mn_0.09)₂O₇ single crystal in high magnetic fields, Science Bulletin 64, 20 (2018).
12. Wenshuai Gao, Liran Shi, Zhongwen Ouyang, Zhengcai Xia, Zhe Wang, Bingjie Liu, Hexuan Li, Youming Zou, Lu Yu, Lei Zhang, Li Pi, Zhe Qu*, and Yuheng Zhang, Competing spin fluctuations and trace of vortex dynamics in the two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnet AgCrS₂, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30, 265802 (2018).
13. Yihao Wang, Cong Xian, Jian Wang, Bingjie Liu, Langsheng Ling, Lei Zhang, Liang Cao, Zhe Qu*, and Yimin Xiong*, Anisotropic anomalous Hall effect in triangular itinerant ferromagnet Fe₃GeTe₂, Physical Review B 96, 134428 (2017). 
14. Bingjie Liu, Youming Zou, Shiming Zhou, Lei Zhang, Zhe Wang, Hexuan Li, Zhe Qu*, and Yuheng Zhang, Critical behavior of the van der Waals bonded high TC ferromagnet Fe₃GeTe₂, Scientific Reports 7, 6184 (2017).