Rate My Professor Xia-Ji Liu

Professor Xia-Ji Liu is a Professor at the Centre for Quantum Technology Theory at Swinburne University of Technology. She earned her PhD from Tsinghua University in 2001. Her postdoctoral research included positions at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy from 2002 to 2003 and at the University of Queensland from 2004 to 2006, followed by a University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2006 to 2008. She then held an ARC Australian Research Fellowship at Swinburne University of Technology from 2009 to 2014 and an ARC Future Fellowship there from 2015 to 2019. She has been Professor since January 2017.

Liu's research focuses on ultracold quantum gases, strongly correlated fermions, quantum many-body physics, Bose-Einstein condensates, Fermi polarons, quantum droplets, spin-orbit-coupled atomic gases, and superconductivity in altermagnets. She pioneered novel theories to understand strongly correlated fermions, providing testable predictions for cold atom experiments. Key publications include 'Phase diagram of a strongly interacting polarized Fermi gas in one dimension' (Physical Review Letters, 2007), 'Probing Anisotropic Superfluidity in Atomic Fermi Gases with Spin-Orbit Coupling' (Physical Review Letters, 2011), 'Rashba spin-orbit-coupled atomic Fermi gases' (Physical Review A, 2011), and 'Probing Majorana fermions in spin-orbit-coupled atomic Fermi gases' (Physical Review Letters, 2012). Her work has garnered over 8,370 citations with an h-index of 48 according to Google Scholar. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP) and serves on the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council.