Xuedan Ma
Associate Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Dr. Ma is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the Nanoscience and Technology Division in Argonne National Laboratory. She joined Rice University in July 2024.
Dr. Ma received her Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg in Germany. After serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos/Sandia National Laboratories, she joined the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory as a RD2 Scientist in 2016, and was promoted to a RD3 Scientist in 2021. Between 2017 and 2024, she was also a CASE Fellow at the University of Chicago and NAISE Fellow at Northwestern University.
Research Areas
Quantum optics, nanophotonics, cavity quantum electrodynamics, polariton chemistry
Low-dimensional materials, semiconductors, magnetic and spintronic materials
High resolution imaging and spectroscopy of individual nano-objects
Education
2011 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany
2007 M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry, University of Siegen, Germany
2005 B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Teaching Areas
Materials science
Condense matter physics
Physical chemistry
Societies & Organizations
Member, Materials Research Society
Member, American Physical Society
Member, American Chemical Society
