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Prof. Zhiqin CHU
Professor Zhiqin CHU
Associate Head (RPg Teaching and Learning),
Associate Professor (joint appointment with School of Biomedical Sciences)
IEEE Senior Member
  3917 2685
  CB-516
Research Interests:
Quantum Technologies; Diamond Defects; Biophysics -
Quantum Biosensing, CVD Diamond; Nanodiamonds; NV Centers; Cell Mechanobiology.

Biography

Zhiqin Chu received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Northwest University (China) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in July 2008 and July 2012, respectively. After spending one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the same group, he conducted postdoctoral research at The University of Stuttgart (Germany) from April 2014 to September 2016. Since November 2018, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (with a joint appointment in the School of Biomedical Sciences) at The University of Hong Kong, and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in November 2024. Since joining HKU, Prof. Chu has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, and Science Advances, and has filed 14 patents related to diamond technology. Prof. Chu has received multiple awards, including the Gold Medal at the 2023 International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN), the Top 10 Best Invention Award at the 2023 iCAN, the Silver Medal at the 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days, and the Gold Medal at the 2024 International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva.

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Selected Publications

  • “Scalable Production of Ultraflat and Ultraflexible Diamond Membrane”, Jixiang Jing, et al., Zhiqin Chu*, Nature, 636, 627-634, 2024.
  • “Quantum-Enhanced Diamond Molecular Tension Microscopy for Quantifying Cellular Forces”, Feng Xu, et al., Zhiqin Chu*, Science Advances, 10, eadi5300, 2024. Selected as a featured article and highlighted on website.
  • “High-dimensional anticounterfeiting nanodiamonds authenticated with deep metric learning”, Lingzhi Wang, et al., Zhiqin Chu*, Nature Communications, 15, 10602, 2024.

 

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