Rui Shi  Professor

Education and Work Experience

2020-present Professor         Zhejiang University

2015-2020 Postdoc.              University of Tokyo

2013-2014 Visiting Scholar  Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University

2009-2014 Ph.D.                   Institute of Theoretical Physics,

                                              Chinese Academy of Sciences

2005-2009 B.S.                     Wuhan University

Research

Soft matter physics:  Water, ionic liquids and glasses

Statistical physics:    Glass transition and crystallization

Energy physics:        Electrolytes and energy storage devices

Biological physics:   Protein folding and liquid-liquid phase separation

Representative Publications

1. Rui Shi and Hajime Tanaka, The anomalies and criticality of liquid water, PNAS, 117, 26591 (2020).

2. Rui Shi and Hajime Tanaka, Direct evidence in the scattering function for the coexistence of two types of local structures in liquid water, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, 2868–2875 (2020).

3. Hajime Tanaka#*, Hua Tong#*, Rui Shi#* and John Russo#*, Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses, Nature Reviews Physics, 1, 333 (2019).

4. Rui Shi and Hajime Tanaka, Distinct signature of local tetrahedral ordering in the scattering function of covalent liquids and glasses, Science Advances, 5, eaav3194 (2019).

5. Rui Shi, John Russo and Hajime Tanaka, Origin of the emergent fragile-to-strong transition in supercooled water, PNAS, 115, 9444 (2018).

6. Rui Shi and Hajime Tanaka, Impact of local symmetry breaking on the physical properties of tetrahedral liquids, PNAS, 115, 1980 (2018).

Contact

Email: ruishi@zju.edu.cn

Website: https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/ruishi