Li Wan

Dr. Li Wan is a European Research Council (ERC) funded Principal Investigator at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany. He leads the Chiral Optoelectronics Group, focusing on chiral materials and their applications in optoelectronic devices.

• Education: PhD in Physics (2020) from Imperial College London, supervised by Profs. Alasdair J. Campbell and Matthew J. Fuchter.
• Postdoctoral Experience: Worked at Linköping University (2020–2022) and Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (2023–2025) under Prof. Xinliang Feng.

Li Wan’s research spans chiral materials, organic optoelectronics, and electronic structure analysis. His work on circularly polarized light emission and perovskite solar cells has achieved international recognition, with publications in high-impact journals like Nature Photonics and Nature Communications.

Recent publications highlight trends in chiral optoelectronics, including advancements in hybrid perovskites, excited-state hybridization, and surface lattice engineering for photovoltaics. His group’s work combines experimental and theoretical approaches to optimize material properties for next-generation devices.

Li Wan serves as a peer reviewer for journals such as Nature Communications and Angewandte Chemie, and contributes to international research funding evaluations.