Principal Investigator

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Prof Dr Shuaifeng Hu (胡帅锋)

Assistant Professor 
MILES-HKU Group Leader
Department of Chemistry 
University of Hong Kong 
Hong Kong, PR China 

Email: sfhu@hku.hk

Education and Research Experiences

2023–2026  Postdoc. University of Oxford, UK (Advisor: Henry J. Snaith, FRS) 
2019–2023  D.Sc. Kyoto University, Japan (Advisor: Atushi Wakamiya) 
2016–2019  M.Eng. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Advisor: Xing Lu) 

Awards and Recognition 

2025  MPLS Impact Awards 2025, University of Oxford, UK 
2022  Student Presentation Award, PVSEC-33, Japan 
2021  JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan 
2021  Innovative PV Encouragement Award, Japan Photovoltaic Society, Japan 
2019  PhD Scholarship of China Scholarship Council, China 

Dr Hu’s research has attracted broad public attention and has been featured by media outlets such as the Oxford University News, CNN, BBC, Yahoo, MSN, The Associated Press, etc. He has also been independently invited to serve as a peer reviewer for top-tier journals such as Nature, Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Sustain. Joule, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., ACS Nano, etc. 

Graduate Students

Yiming Yang

PhD candidate
2026-Present
M.Sc. City University of Hong Kong
Email: ymyangpvk@outlook.com
Research interest: Photovoltaics, Multijunction Devices, Perovskite, Stability and Sustainability, Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Phase Engineering

Jingzhi Zhang

PhD candidate
2026-Present
M.Sc. Peking University(PKU)
E-mail: jingzhi.zhang09@outlook.com
Research interest: Photovoltaics and LEDs, Perovskite and organic optoelectronic devices, Multijunction devices, Device physics, Ionic activities

Lei Wang

PhD candidate
2026-Present
M.Sc. Hunan University
Email: leiwang7010@outlook.com
Research interest: Lighting materials and devices, Synthetic chemistry, Chiral ligand design, Chiral crystals, Charge transfer dynamics

Runxuan Liu

PhD candidate
2026-Present
B.Sc. University College London (UCL)
Email: liurunxuan0202@gmail.com
Research interest: Autonomous Materials Discovery, Sustainable Materials and Device Engineering, Multimodal Characterisation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Perovskites

Wentao Liu

Visiting PhD student
M.Sc. Kyoto University
PhD candidate, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Email: wentaoliu886@outlook.com
Research interest: Photovoltaics, Fullerenes, Perovskites, Luminescent materials

Jiayang Zhu

Master candidate
2026-Present
B.E. Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Email: jyangzhu@outlook.com
Research interest: Data Analysis/Science, AI, Machine Learning, Automation, Optical and electrical simulations for optoelectronic devices

Zhijie Rao

Visiting Master Student
Master candidate, Soochow University, China.
Email: zhijrao@outlook.com
Research interest: Structural design and fabrication of photovoltaic devices, Electrical loss analysis, Multijunction devices, Wide-bandgap perovskite

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