Essential Information

Name: Xiuyang Xia

Position: Assistant Professor

Email: xiaxy@sustech.edu.cn

Office: College of Science P5094

Research Field: Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics, and Statistical Mechanics

Education background

Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2018, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, B.S. in Polymer Materials and Engineering

Aug. 2018 – Apr. 2023, Nanyang Technological University, Ph.D. in Physics

Working experience

Jun. 2023 – Oct. 2023, Nanyang Technological University, Postdoctoral Researcher

Dec. 2023 – Nov. 2025, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow

Jan. 2026 – Present, Southern University of Science and Technology, Assistant Professor

Papers and Patents

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4851-4057

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?&user=isDMW0D64b4C

[1] Xiuyang Xia#, Yuhan Peng#, Ka Ki Li, and Ran Ni*, Designed self-assembly of programmable colloidal atom-electron equivalents, Rep. Prog. Phys., 88, 078101 (2025) arXiv

[2] Siyu Wan#, Xiuyang Xia#, Yutong Gao, Heyang Zhang, Zhebin Zhang, Fangyue Xu, Dong Yang, Tongtao Li*, Jianfeng Li*, Ran Ni*, and Angang Dong*, Curvature-guided depletion stabilizes Kagome superlattices of nanocrystals, Science, 387, 978 (2025) pdf [Highlighted in Science]

[3] Xiuyang Xia and Ran Ni*, Designing superselectivity in linker-mediated multivalent nanoparticle adsorption, Phys. Rev. Lett., 132, 118202 (2024) arXiv

[4] Qunli Lei#, Xiuyang Xia#, Juan Yang, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, and Ran Ni*,  Entropy-Controlled Crosslinking in Linker-Mediated Vitrimers, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 117, 27111 (2020) pdf arXiv

[5] Xiuyang Xia, Hao Hu, Massimo Pica Ciamarra and Ran Ni*; Linker-mediated self-assembly of mobile DNA coated colloids, Science Advances, 6, eaaz6921 (2020) pdf arXiv