Jianglai Liu

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Biographical Sketch:

Professor Liu obtained B. S. in Physics from Nanjing University in 1998. He received Ph.D. degree in Physics in 2006 from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. He held postdoctoral then senior postdoctoral scholar position at Caltech from 2006 to 2010. He joined SJTU as a distinguished research fellow in 2011, and became a full professor in 2016.

He has worked on various experiments in the intersections of nuclear, particle, and astrophysics. He studied the strange quark form factors of the nucleon at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) via parity-violating electron scattering (G-zero, 1999-2006), and performed measurements of the axial-vector coupling constant of the nucleon using ultracold neutron decays at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (UCNA, 2006-2010). He is now the PI of the underground physics group at SJTU, with interests centered on the dark matter and neutrino physics. He currently serves as the spokesperson of the PandaX experiment, a xenon-based direct dark matter search at the China Jin-Ping Underground Laboratory. He also has strong involvements in the Daya Bay and JUNO experiments, studying the fundamental properties of the neutrinos.

Liu received the best Ph.D. dissertation prize from Thomas Jefferson Lab in 2006. He was awarded the Outstanding Junior Investigator from NSFC in 2015. In 2019, he received the Wang Ganchang Prize of the Chinese Physics Society and the Xplorer Prize of the Tencent Foundation for his contributions to the studies of dark matter and neutrino properties in the PandaX and Daya Bay experiments.
 

Selected Publications: 

1. Dark Matter Results From 54-Ton-Day Exposure Of Pandax-Ii Experiment. By PandaX-II Collaboration (Xiangyi Cui et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 181302 (2017)
2. Dark Matter Results From First 98.7-Day Data Of Pandax-Ii Experiment. By PandaX-II Collaboration (A. Tan et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 121303 (2016)
3. Low-Mass Dark Matter Search Results From Full Exposure Of The Pandax-I Experiment. By PandaX Collaboration (Xiang Xiao et al.). Phys. Rev. D 92, 052004 (2015)
4. Observation Of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance At Daya Bay. By Dayabay Collaboration (F.P. An et al.). Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171803 (2012)
5. Determination Of The Axial-Vector Weak Coupling Constant With Ultracold Neutrons. By UCNA Collaboration (J. Liu, et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 181803 (2010).
6. Strange Quark Contributions To Parity-Violating Asymmetries In The Forward G0 Electron-Proton Scattering Experiment. By G0 Collaboration (D. S. Armstrong et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 092001 (2005).