Background Information: 

Su-Huai Wei received his B.S. in Physics from Fudan University in China in 1981 and Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary in USA in 1985.

He joined the Solar Energy Research Institute (it is now National Renewable Energy Laboratory or NREL) in 1985 as a postdoctoral researcher and later became Staff Scientist, Senior Scientist, Principal Scientist, Manager of the Theoretical Materials Science Group, and was an Institute Research Fellow at NREL before he joined the Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) in 2015. He joined the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China in June, 2024 as Dean of School of Physics. His research is focused on developing first-principles electronic structure theory and calculation methods for studying underlying physics of materials properties of semiconductors, optoelectronic materials and energy related materials. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and The Materials Research Society. As of June 2025, he has published over 670 papers, with more than 70 in Physical Review Letters. In the past five years, he has published 104 papers, including 70 as corresponding author in leading international journals such as Nature, Nat. Comput., Sci. Adv., and Phy. Rev. Lett. His total citations exceed 83,000, H-index:139.

Research Field:

1. Optoelectronic properties of photovoltaic and light-emitting materials

2. Defect physics in semiconductors

3. Electronic structures and stabilities of alloys, superlattices, and interfaces

4. Novel properties in nano materials

5. Magnetic properties of semiconductors

6. Electronic properties of organic and hybrid semiconductors

7. Energy storage materials.

8. Electronic structure calculation methods.

Educational Background:

1983.06 -1985.08, Ph.D. in Physics, College of William and Mary, USA

1981.08 - 1983.05, M.S. in Physics, College of William and Mary, USA

1978.02 - 1981.06, B.S. in Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Work Experience:

2024-present, Chair Professor and Dean, School of Physics, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

2015-2024, Chair Professor and Head, Materials and Energy Division, Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), China

2014-2015, Institute Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA

2003-2015, Principal Scientist and Group Manager, Theoretical Materials Science (NREL)

1995-2003, Senior Scientist II/Team Leaders, Computational Materials Science (NREL)

1992-1995, Senior Scientist I (NREL)

1990-1992, Staff Scientist,  (NREL, formerly SERI)

1985-1989, Postdoctor/Research Associate, Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI)

Academic Part-time Jobs (Partial):

Current Positions:

1. Deputy Director, Computational Materials Science Division, Chinese Materials Research Society

2. Committee Member, Materials Genome Division, Chinese Materials Research Society

3. Associate Editor for the following journals:

• Computational Materials Sciences

• Journal of Computational Physics

• Chinese Physics Letters

• Chinese Physics B

• National Science Open (NSO)

• Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy

4. International Advisory Committee Member, International Conference of Ternary and Multinary Compounds (22nd Conference Chair)

5. International Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (33rd Conference Chair)

6. Academic Committee Member, Key Laboratory of Material Simulation Methods and Software, Ministry of Education, Jilin University

7. Academic Committee Member, Key Laboratory of Computational Materials and Software, Ministry of Education, and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Center for Fundamental Research on Computational Methods and Software, Fudan University

Awards and Honors:

1999: Fellow of the American Physical Society 

2014: Fellow of the Materials Research Society

2014: NREL Institute Research Fellow

2015: National Professor of China

Representative Works:

General Information

As of June 2025, he has published over 670 papers, with more than 70 in Physical Review Letters. In the past five years, he has published 104 papers, including 70 as corresponding author in leading international journals such as Nature, Nat. Comput., Sci. Adv., and Phy. Rev. Lett. His total citations exceed 83,000, H-index:139.

Google Scholar：

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WLN0rVoAAAAJ

Web of Science：

https://webofscience.clarivate.cn/wos/author/record/AAE-9616-2019

Representative Works (* refers to the corresponding author)

1. G. Wang, Y. N. Du, P. Huang, Z. F. Qian, P. Zhang* and S.-H. Wei*, “Design of intrinsic transparent conductors from a synergetic effect of symmetry and wavefunction-distribution forbidden transitions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036401 (2025).

2. H. Gao†, D. He†, Z. Chen†, P. Gao†, D. He†, Z. Li, X. Zhang, J. Xiu, Q. Sun, S. Chen, S.-H. Wei*, S. Yu, Z. He*, “Disorder-order transition–induced unusual bandgap bowing effect of tin-lead mixed perovskites”, Sci. Adv. 11, eads4038 (2025).

3. R. Cao, Q.-L. Yang, H.-X. Deng*, S.-H. Wei*, J Robertson and J.-W. Luo*, “Softening of the optical phonon by reduced interatomic bonding strength without depolarization”, Nature, 634, 1080 (2024). 

4. Q.-S. Huang, C.-N. Li, M.-S. Hao, H.-P. Liang, X. Zhang*, and S.-H. Wei*, “Nature of Disordering in γ-Ga2O3”, Phys. Rev. Lett.133, 226101 (2024).

5. S.-H. Wei and H. Krakauer, “Local-density-functional calculation of the pressure-induced metallization of BaSe and BaTe”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1200 (1985). 

6. H.-X. Deng, J.-W. Luo*, S.-S. Li, and S.-H. Wei*, “Origin of the distinct diffusion behaviors of Cu and Ag in covalent and ionic semiconductors”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 165901 (2016). 

7. A. Walsh, J.L.F. Da Silva, and S.-H. Wei, “Theoretical description of carrier mediated magnetism in cobalt doped ZnO”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256401 (2008). 

8. S.-H. Wei, L. G. Ferreira, J. E. Bernard, and A. Zunger, “Electronic properties of random alloys: special quasirandom structures”, Phys. Rev. B 42, 9622 (1990). 

9. S.-H. Wei and A. Zunger, “Giant and composition-dependent optical bowing coefficient in GaAsN alloys”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 664 (1996). 

10. Y. Gai, J. Li*, S.-S. Li, J.-B. Xia and S.-H. Wei*, “Design of narrow-gap TiO2: A passivated codoping approach for enhanced photoelectrochemical activity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036402 (2009).