Education

• PhD in Physics, McGill University, Canada (2020) (Advisor: Hong Guo)
• B.E. & M.E. in Material Physics, University of Sci. & Tech. Beijing (2013 & 2016)

Position

• Dec 2024-now, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Jan 2021-Nov 2024, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA (Advisor: Steven G. Louie)

Research Interest

Selected Recent Publications

• J. Song*, Y. Wang*, X. Zhao*, Y. Song*, S. Liu, C. Hu#, and Y. Xu#, “Observation of Wannier-Rydberg and charge-transfer hybrid moiré excitons under pressure”, Physical Review X 16, 041007 (2026) 
• C. Hu, M. H. Naik, Y.-H. Chan, and S. G. Louie, “Excitonic interactions and mechanism for ultrafast interlayer photoexcited response in van der Waals heterostructures”, Physical Review Letters 131, 236904 (2023) (Editors’ Suggestion)
• C. Hu, M. H. Naik, Y.-H. Chan, J. Ruan and S. G. Louie, “Light-induced shift current vortex crystals in moiré heterobilayers”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2314775120 (2023) 
• L. Meng*, N. Xin*, C. Hu*, H. Al Sabea*, M. Zhang*, H. Jiang, Y. Ji, C. Jia, Z. Yan, Q. Zhang, L. Gu, X. He, P. Selvanathan, L. Norel, S. Rigaut, H. Guo, S. Meng and X. Guo, “Dual-gated single-molecule field-effect transistors beyond Moore’s law”, Nature Communications 13, 1410 (2022) 
• H. Chen*, F. Jiang*, C. Hu*, Y. Jiao, S. Chen, Y. Qiu, P. Zhou, L. Zhang, K. Cai, B. Song, X.-Y. Chen, X. Zhao, M. R. Wasielewski, H. Guo, W. Hong, and J. F. Stoddart, “Electron-catalyzed dehydrogenation in a single-molecule junction”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, 8476 (2021) 
• C. Hu, V. Michaud-Rioux, W. Yao, and H. Guo, “Theoretical design of topological heteronanotubes”, Nano Letters 19, 4146 (2019) 
• L. Meng*, N. Xin*, C. Hu*, J. Wang, B. Gui, J. Shi, C. Wang, C. Shen, G. Zhang, H. Guo, S. Meng, and X. Guo, “Side-Group chemical gating via reversible optical and electric control in a single-molecule transistor”, Nature Communications 10, 1450 (2019) 
• C. Hu, V. Michaud-Rioux, W. Yao, and H. Guo, “Moiré valleytronics: Realizing dense arrays of topological helical channels”, Physical Review Letters 121, 186403 (2018) 
• C. Hu, V. Michaud-Rioux, X. Kong, and H. Guo, “Dirac electrons in Moiré superlattice: From two to three dimensions”, Physical Review Materials 1, 061003 (R) (2017) (Rapid Communications)