• PhD in Physics, McGill University, Canada (2020)
• M.E. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (2016)
• B.E. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (2013)

• 2024-now, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2021-2024, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• 2020, Research Associate, McGill University, Canada

• Theoretical condensed matter physics & computational material science
• Atomistic ab initio calculations (density functional theory, many-body GW theory, quantum transport theory etc.)
• Intriguing physics in low-dimensional quantum materials and nanodevices

(* equal contributions)

• 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) (Top 25 Physics Articles of 2022)
• N. Xin*, C. Hu*, H. Al Sabea*, M. Zhang*, C. Zhou*, L. Meng, C. Jia, Y. Gong, Y. Li, G. Ke, X. He, P. Selvanathan, L. Norel, M. A. Ratner, Z. Liu, S. Xiao, S. Rigaut, H. Guo, and X. Guo, “Tunable symmetry-breaking-induced dual functions in stable and photoswitched single-molecule junctions”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, 20811 (2021)
• 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 and H. Guo, “2N -rule: Searching topological phases and robust edge modes in carbon nanotubes”, Applied Physics Letters 117, 083101 (2020)
• H. Chen*, H. Zheng*, C. Hu*, K. Cai, Y. Jiao, L. Zhang, F. Jiang, I. Roy, Y. Qiu, D. Shen, Y. Feng, F. M. Alsubaie, H. Guo, W. Hong, and J. F. Stoddart, “Giant conductance enhancement of intramolecular circuits through interchannel gating”, Matter 2, 1 (2020) (Front Cover)
• 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. Gu*, C. Hu*, Y. Wei, D. Lin, C. Jia, M. Li, D. Su, J. Guan, A. Xia, L. Xie, A. Nitzan, H. Guo, and X. Guo, “Label-free dynamic detection of singlemolecule nucleophilic substitution reaction”, Nano Letters 18, 4156 (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)
• C. Hu, W. Lu, W. Ji, G. Yu, Y. Yan, and J. Teng, “Switchable valley injection into graphene”, Physical Review B 92, 115404 (2015)
• C. Hu, J. Teng, G. Yu, W. Lu, and W. Ji, “Conditions for quantized anisotropic magnetoresistance”, Physical Review B 91, 045438 (2015)