Personal profile
Wen Xin Hua, Professor and PhD Supervisor. Her research focuses on metamaterials for acoustic and electromagnetic waves, time-varying control, and topological physics. She has published over ten papers as the first author/co-first author in international journals such as Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Science Advances. Her research work has been awarded the Best Application Paper Award by the American Physical Society. She serves as a reviewer for journals such as Physical Review Letters, Communications Physics, and Physical Review B, and as a guest editor for the journal Micromachines.
Research directions
Research on acoustic and electromagnetic metamaterials, time-varying regulation, and topological physics, etc
Education and Work Experience
From September 2018 to November 2022, I pursued my PhD in Physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
From September 2015 to July 2018, Wuhan University, Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics, Master's Degree
From September 2011 to July 2015, I studied Microelectronics at Guangdong University of Technology, obtaining a Bachelor's degree. From May 2025 to present, I am a Professor at South China University of Technology. From September 2023 to May 2025, I served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. From September 2022 to September 2023, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Representative paper results
1. Xinhua Wen, Chunyin Qiu*, Yajuan Qi, Liping Ye, Manzhu Ke, Fan Zhang, and Zhengyou Liu, Acoustic Landau quantization and quantum-Hall-like edge states, Nat. Phys. 15, 352–356 (2019).
2. Choonlae Cho†, Xinhua Wen†, Namkyoo Park, and Jensen Li*, Digitally virtualized atoms for acoustic metamaterials. Nat. Commun. 11, 1-8 (2020).
3. Xinhua Wen, Heung Kit Yip, Choonlae Cho, Jensen Li*, and Namkyoo Park*, Acoustic amplifying diode using non-reciprocal Willis coupling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176101 (2023).
4. Xinhua Wen, Choonlae Cho, Xinghong Zhu, Namkyoo Park*, and Jensen Li*, Nonreciprocal field transformation with active acoustic metasurfaces, Sci. Adv. 10 , eadm9673 (2024).
5. Qingdong Yang†, Xinhua Wen†, Zhongfu Li†, Oubo You, and Shuang Zhang, Gigantic Tellegen responses in metamaterials, Nat. Commun. 16, 151 (2025).
6. Xinhua Wen, Xinghong Zhu, Alvin Fan, Wing Yim Tam, Jie Zhu, Hongwei Wu, Fabrice Lemoult, Mathias Fink*, and Jensen Li*, Unidirectional amplification with acoustic non-Hermitian space-time varying metamaterial, Commun. Phys. 5, 18 (2022).
7. Xinhua Wen†, Xinghong Zhu†, Hong Wei Wu, and Jensen Li*, Realizing spatiotemporal effective media for acoustic metamaterials, Phys. Rev. B 104, L060304 (2021).
8. Choonlae Cho†, Xinhua Wen†, Namkyoo Park*, and Jensen Li*. Acoustic Willis meta-atom beyond the bounds of passivity and reciprocity. Commun. Phys. 4, 82 (2021).
9. Xinhua Wen, Chunyin Qiu*, Jiuyang Lu, Hailong He, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu*, Acoustic Dirac degeneracy and topological phase transitions realized by rotating scatterers, J. Appl. Phys. 123, 091703 (2018).
10. Jensen Li, Xinhua Wen, Ping Sheng, Acoustic Metamaterials, J. Appl. Phys. 129, 171103 (2021).
Contact Information
E-mail：xwenai@scut.edu.cn
