Education and Working Experience

• Apr. 2025 – Pres.
  College of Smart Materials and Future Energy
  Fudan University, China

• Nov. 2010 – Apr. 2025
  Professor
  Department of Materials Science
  Fudan University, China

• Jul. 2016 – Jul. 2017
  Visiting scholar
  John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  Harvard University, USA

• Aug. 2009 – Sep. 2009
  Visiting scholar
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

• Sep. 2008 – Oct. 2010
  International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) fellow, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan  

• Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2008
  JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

• Sept. 2001- July 2006
  M.S. and Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Supervisor: Prof. Lide Zhang

• Sept. 1997- July 2001
  B.S. in Electronic Materials and Devices, Anhui University, China

Teaching

• Wonderful Nano-World

• Nano-Functional Materials

Research Interests

• Nano-electronics and nano-photonics

Awards & Recognition

• Highly cited researcher (in Materials Science) since 2014 to now     

• The 1st Prize of Natural Science Award of Shanghai 2014     

• The 1st Prize of Natural Science Award of Anhui Province 2011     

• Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2008     

• Best Oral Paper Award, International Conference for Electronic Materials, International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) Australia 2008     

• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship 2006     

• Special Prize of President Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2006

Professional Activities

• Editor for Journal of Materials Science & Technology    

• Guest Editor for Advanced Materials

Selected Publications

Professor Xiaosheng Fang, together with his research group and collaborators, has published 200+ peer-reviewed journal publications and is a co-inventor on a number of issued and pending Patents. Professor Xiaosheng Fang has advised 50+ M.S. and Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers.

The full list of publications:

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/163387

5 representative papers:

• Z. J. Zhao, Z. J. Hu, M. Deng, E. L. Hong, P. X. Wang, Z. Q. Li, X. S. Fang*, Bias-switchable photodetection and photosynapse dual-functional devices based on 2D Perovskite/organic heterojunction for imaging-to-recognition conversion, Adv. Mater. 37 (2025) 2416033.

• S. Y. Li, X. Y. Liu, H. Yang, H. Zhu, X. S. Fang*, Two-dimensional perovskite oxide as a photoactive high-κ gate dielectric, Nat. Electron. 7 (2024) 216-224.

• Z. Q. Li, T. T. Yan, X. S. Fang*, Low-dimensional wide-bandgap semiconductors for UV photodetectors, Nat. Rev. Mater. 8 (2023) 587–603.

• T. T. Yan, Z. Q. Li, F. Cao, J. X. Chen, L. M. Wu, X. S. Fang*, An all-organic self-powered photodetector with ultraflexible dual-polarity output for biosignal detection, Adv. Mater. 34 (2022) 2201303.

• W. D. Song, J. X. Chen, Z. L. Li, X. S. Fang*, Self-powered MXene/GaN van der waals heterojunction ultraviolet photodiodes with superhigh efficiency and stable current outputs, Adv. Mater. 33 (2021) 2101059.