Prof. Lixin He obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1994, and Master degree in 1997. He studied the first-principles methods with Prof. David Vanderbilt at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Rutgers University and obtained his Ph. D degree in 2003. From Sept. 2003 to Jan. 2006, Prof. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Solid State Theory group in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with Dr. Alex Zunger, where he focused on the physical properties of semiconductor quantum dots. He then joined the Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, USTC as a facult member. He was elected as IOP fellow (UK) in 2012.

(1) discovered and proved that in a 1D crystal the decay properties of Wannier functions and density matrices can be written as a power law decay times a exponential decay;

(2) predicted that the InAs/InSb quantum dots have strongly correlated excitonic ground states, i.e. the electron-hole pairs can form spontaneously in these dots. He also worked on the physical properties of high dielectric, ferroelectric,multiferroic materials;the electronic structure of self-assembled quantum dots, and the electron entanglement etc.

(1) develop the first-principles methods and apply them to study real materials;

(2) study the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots and their applications in quantum information and quantum computing.