Dr Shuqiu Wang

Research focus

Experimental quantum matter, superconductivity, strongly correlated electron systems, topological states of matter, scanning tunneling microscopy, low-temperature physics.

Experience

Since 2024       Assistant Professor at University of Bristol
2019-2023       Postdoc at University of Oxford with Séamus Davis
2019-2023       Visiting scientist at Cornell University
2015-2019       PhD at University of Oxford with Martin Castell

Award

2025               Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
2025               IUPAP Young Scientist Prize on Low Temperature Physics (C5)
2025               UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award
2024               Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for Europe 
2023               Rising Star in Physics

[1] Imaging Odd-Parity Quasiparticle Interference in the Superconductive Surface State of UTe₂.
Nature Physics, 21, 1555-1562 (2025).
Shuqiu Wang^§✉, Kuanysh Zhussupbekov^§, Joseph P Carroll^§, Bin Hu, Xiaolong Liu, Emile Pangburn, Adeline Crepieux, Catherine Pepin, Christopher Broyles, Sheng Ran, Nicholas P Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Cristina Bena, JC Séamus Davis^✉, Qiangqiang Gu^✉.

[2] Pair Wavefunction Symmetry in UTe₂ from Zero-Energy Surface State Visualization. 
Science, 388, 938-944 (2025).
Qiangqiang Gu^§✉, Shuqiu Wang^§, Joseph P. Carroll^§, Kuanysh Zhussupbekov^§, Christopher Broyles, Sheng Ran, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Xiaolong Liu, J.C. Séamus Davis^✉, Dung-Hai Lee^✉.

[3] Discovery of Orbital Ordering in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+x,
Nature Materials 23, 492–498 (2024)
Shuqiu Wang^§✉, Niall Kennedy^§, Kazuhiro Fujita, Shin-ichi Uchida, Hiroshi Eisaki, Peter D. Johnson, J.C. Séamus Davis^✉ and Shane M. O’Mahony

[4] Detection of a Pair Density Wave State in UTe₂,
Nature, 618, 921–927, 2023. 
Qiangqiang Gu^§, Joseph P. Carroll^§, Shuqiu Wang^§✉, Sheng Ran, Christopher Broyles, Hasan Siddiquee, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta R. Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, J.C. Séamus Davis^✉ and Xiaolong Liu^✉

[5] Scattering interference signature of a pair density wave state in the cuprate pseudogap phase,
Nature Communications 12, 6087, 2021
Shuqiu Wang^§, Peayush Choubey^§, Yi Xue Chong^§, Weijiong Chen, Wangping Ren, H. Eisaki, Shin-ichi Uchida, Peter J. Hirschfeld, J.C. Séamus Davis^✉.