Yanfeng Guo is a Professor at the School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. His research focuses on the design of new quantum materials, high-quality single-crystal growth, and the investigation of their physical properties. In recent years, his work has primarily centered on magnetic topological materials and unconventional superconductors. He has published over 300 papers in leading journals including Nature, Nature series journals, and Physical Review X/Letters, accumulating nearly 8,000 citations (Web of Science) and an Hindex of 42.

1) Exploration of emergent quantum materials via high-pressure and ambient-condition synthesis, encompassing unconventional superconductors and magnetic topological phases

2) Sizable and high-quality crystal growth of various quantum materials

3) Investigating the interplay of lattice, spin, and charge dynamics in the exotic physical properties of quantum materials

Sept. 2003 - July 2008  PhD in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sept. 2008 – Sept. 2012  Postdoc in National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

Sept. 2012 – June 2015  Postdoc in Department of Physics, University of Oxford

July 2015 – July 2022   Tenure-track assistant professor at ShanghaiTech Univ.

July 2022 – present     Tenured associate professor at ShanghaiTech Univ.

Shanghai Specially Appointed Professor “Eastern Scholar”

Leading Talent of the Shanghai Eastern Talent Program

Pujiang Talent Program

Researcher ID: U-6086-2019

1) Giant domain wall anomalous Hall effect in a layered antiferromagnet EuAl2Si2, Wei Xia, Bo Bai, Xuejiao Chen, Yichen Yang, Yang Zhang, Jian Yuan, Qiang Li, Kunya Yang, Xiangqi Liu, Yang Shi, Haiyang Ma, Huali Yang, Mingquan He, Lei Li, Chuanying Xi, Li Pi, Xiaodong Lv, Xia Wang, Xuerong Liu, Shiyan Li, Xiaodong Zhou, Jianpeng Liu, Yulin Chen, Jian Shen, Dawei Shen*, Zhicheng Zhong*, Wenbo Wang*, Yanfeng Guo*, 

Physical Review Letters 2024, 133: 216602.

2) Multiple magnetic topological phases in bulk van der Waals crystal MnSb4Te7, Shunchun Huan#, Shihao Zhang#, Zhicheng Jiang#, Hao Su, Hongyuan Wang, Xin Zhang, Yichen Yang, Zhengtai Liu, Xia Wang, Na Yu, Zhiqiang Zou, Dawei Shen*, Jianpeng Liu*, Yanfeng Guo*, 

Physical Review Letters 2021, 126: 246601. Editor's Suggestion

3) Emergence of new van Hove singularities in the charge density wave state of a topological kagom metal RbV3Sb5, Soohyun Cho, Haiyang Ma, Wei Xia, Yichen Yang, Zhentai Liu, Zhe Huang, Zhicheng Jiang, Xiangle Lu, Jishan Liu, Zhonghao Liu, Jinfeng Jia, Yanfeng Guo*, Jianpeng Liu*, and D. W. Shen*, 

Physical Review Letters 2021, 127: 236401.

4) Large band-splitting in g-wave type altermagnet CrSb, Jianyang Ding, Zhicheng Jiang, Xiuhua Chen, Zicheng Tao, Zhengtai Liu, Jishan Liu, Tongrui Li, Jiayu Liu, Yichen Yang, Runfeng Zhang, Liwei Deng, Wenchuan Jing, Yu Huang, Yuming Shi, Shan Qiao, Yilin Wang*, Yanfeng Guo*, Donglai Feng, Dawei Shen*, 

Physical Review Letters 2024,133: 206401.

5) Magnetism-induced topological transition in EuAs3, Erjian Cheng, Wei Xia,  Xianbiao Shi, Hongwei Fang, Chengwei Wang, Chuanying Xi, Shaowen Xu, Darren C. Peets, Linshu Wang, Hao Su, Li Pi, Wei Ren, Xia Wang, Na Yu, Yulin Chen, Weiwei Zhao, Zhongkai Liu*, Yanfeng Guo*, Shiyan Li*, 

Nature Communications 2021, 12: 6970.