Professor Dangyuan LEI
雷黨願
YMHKEng [2026]
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong; Professor, Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong
- Fellow, SPIE
- Senior Member, Optica
- Senior Member, Chinese Optics Society
- Member, American Physical Society
- Member, Institute of Physics
- Member, Chinese Physical Society
- Member, Chinese Society of Optical Engineering
- Member, Physical Society of Hong Kong
- One of ten finalists of the 2026 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs in Engineering and Technology, Falling Walls Foundation, 2026
- World's Top 0.5% Highly Cited Scholar, ScholarGPS, 2025
- Stanford World's Top 2% Most-Cited Scientist, Stanford University Elsevier, 2021-2025
- Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 2025
- Excellent Young Scientist Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020
- Young Innovators Award, Nano Research, 2021
- Gold Medal, International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2022 & 2023
- Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty, City University of Hong Kong, 2021
- Anne Thorne PhD Thesis Prize, Imperial College London, 2012
- Member, Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
- Deputy Director, Centre for Functional Photonics, City University of Hong Kong
- Programme Leader, MSc in Materials Engineering and Technology, City University of Hong Kong
- Editor, PhotonicX Synergy
- Editor, Advanced Photonics Nexus
- Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Photothermatics Technology Limited
- Provost's Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, 2023-2024
Professor Dangyuan Lei is Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on quantum nano-photonics and plasmonics, nonlinear light–matter interactions, meta-surfaces, radiative cooling, and low-dimensional semiconductor photonics. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers, received about 20,000 citations (h-index 77), and has been recognized as a World's Top 0.5% Highly Cited Scholar (ScholarGPS, 2025). His work bridges fundamental photonics and advanced functional materials for applications in energy, imaging, sensing, and optoelectronic devices. He is a Fellow of SPIE and a Senior Member of Optica (formally OSA).
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong; Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
PhD
Physics
Imperial College London
2011
MPhil
Physics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2007
BSc
Physics
Northwest University
2005