Mengyao Li

Mengyao Li received the Ph.D. degree in physics from City University of New York, NY, USA, in 2021. She then pursued post-doctoral studies in City University of New York, NY, USA. In 2022, she joined Institute of Materials Research, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS) as an Assistant Professor. Her research interest focuses on topological photonics, including Floquet topological systems, higher-order topology, topological polaritons, and photonic and acoustic metamaterials. She published works on high impact journals including Nature Photonics and Nature Communications, with a total citation of over 1000.

Period 2016.08-2021.09 City University of New York, Physics Major, PhD

Period 2012.09-2016.07 Fudan University, Physics Major, Bachelor

Period 2022.10-present Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Assistant professor

Period 2021.09-2022.03 City University of New York, Postdoc Researcher 

Opto-electric Materials and Devices (SIGS)

Interdisciplinary Innovation Practice-based Course: Meta-structures and Realization of Novel Physical Properties (SIGS)

Topological photonics and acoustics，Photonic crystals，Metasurfaces

[1] Mengyao Li; Dmitry Zhirihin; Maxim A. Gorlach; Xiang Ni; Dmitry Filonov; Alexey P. Slobozhanyuk; Andrea Alù; Alexander B. Khanikaev; Higher-order topological states in photonic kagome crystals with long-range interactions, Nature Photonics, 2020, 14(2): 89-94

[2] Mengyao Li; Ivan Sinev; Fedor Benimetskiy; Tatyana Ivanova; Ekaterina Khestanova; Svetlana Kiriushechkina; Anton Vakulenko; Sriram Guddala; Maurice Skolnick; Vinod M. Menon; Dmitry Krizhanovskii; Andrea Alù; Anton Samusev; Alexander B. Khanikaev; Experimental observation of topological Z2 exciton-polaritons in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, Nature Communications, 2021, 12(1): 4425

[3] Mengyao Li; Xiang Ni; Matthew Weiner; Andrea Alù; Alexander B.Khanikaev; Topological phases and nonreciprocal edge states in non-Hermitian Floquet insulators, Physical Review B, 2019, 100(4): 045423

[4] Xiang Ni; Mengyao Li; Matthew Weiner; Andrea Alù; Alexander B. Khanikaev; Demonstration of a quantized acoustic octupole topological insulator, Nature Communications, 2020, 11(1): 2108

[5] S. Guddala; F. Komissarenko; S. Kiriushechkina; A. Vakulenko; M. Li; V. M. Menon; A. Alù; A. B. Khanikaev; Topological phonon-polariton funneling in midinfrared metasurfaces, Science, 2021, 374(6564): 225-227

[6] Kawaguchi, Yuma; Li, Mengyao; Chen, Kai; Menon, Vinod; Alu, Andrea; Khanikaev, Alexander

B.; Optical isolator based on chiral light-matter interactions in a ring resonator integrating adichroic magneto-optical material, Applied Physics Letters, 2021, 118(24): 241104

[7] Anton Vakulenko; Svetlana Kiriushechkina; Mingsong Wang; Mengyao Li; Dmitry V. Zhirihin; Xiang Ni; Sriram Guddala; Dmitry Korobkin; Andrea Alù; Alexander B. Khanikaev; Near‐Field Characterization of Higher‐Order Topological Photonic States at Optical Frequencies, Advanced Materials, 2021, 33(18): 2004376

[8] Matthew Weiner; Xiang Ni; Mengyao Li; Andrea Alù; Alexander B.Khanikaev ; Demonstration of a third-order hierarchy of topological states in a three-dimensional acoustic metamaterial, Science Advances, 2020, 6(13): eaay4166

[9] Chen, Kai; Weiner, Matthew; Li, Mengyao; Ni, Xiang; Alu, Andrea; Khanikaev, Alexander B.; Nonlocal topological insulators: Deterministic aperiodic arrays supporting localized topological states protected by nonlocal symmetries, Proceedings of The National Academy ofSciences of The United States of America, 2021, 118(34): e2100691118

[10] Yuma Kawaguchi, Daria Smirnova, Filipp Komissarenko, Svetlana Kiriushechkina, Anton Vakulenko, Mengyao Li, Andrea Alù, and Alexander B. Khanikaev. Pseudo-spin switches and Aharonov-Bohm effect for topological boundary modes. Science advances 10, no. 15 (2024): eadn6095.