Academic Education and Professional Experience: 

2023-  Professor, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, China

2020-2022 Akademischer Rat a.Z., Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany

2018-2019 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany

2013-2018  Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Xiamen University, China

2009-2013  B.S., Chemistry, Xiamen University, China

Awards and Honor:

2025 Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemist Award

2023  Walter-Schottky-Preis

2019  Selected young scientist for 69th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau

Research Interests:

Ultrafast optics, quantum nonlinear optics, 2D materials, optical spectroscopy, optoelectronics

Selected Recent Publications:

1. 1. Philipp Wutz, Yinong Zhang, Felix Hofmann, Paulo E. Faria Junior*, Yao Lu, Philip Soul, Yu-Han Bao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jaroslav Fabian, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton*, Kai-Qiang Lin*

   Electrical control of intersubband transitions in few-layer WSe₂ multivalley quantum wells probed by electronic Raman scattering

   ACS Nano, 20, 5, 4018 (2026)

2. 2. J. Bauer, L. Chen, P. Wilhelm, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Bange, J. M. Lupton, K.-Q. Lin*

   Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors

   Nature Photon., 16, 777 (2022).

3. 3. K.-Q. Lin*, J. D. Ziegler, M. Semina, J. Mamedov, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Bange, A. Chernikov, M. Glazov, J. M. Lupton*

   High-lying valley-polarized trions in 2D semiconductors

   Nature Commun., 13, 6980 (2022).

4. 4. K.-Q. Lin*, C. S. Ong, S. Bange, P. E. Faria Junior, B. Peng, J. D. Ziegler, J. Zipfel, C. Bäuml, N. Paradiso, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Strunk, B. Monserrat, J. Fabian, A. Chernikov, D. Y. Qiu, S. G. Louie, J. M. Lupton*

   Narrow-band high-lying excitons with negative-mass electrons in monolayer WSe₂

   Nature Commun. 12, 5500 (2021).

5. 5. K.-Q. Lin*, P. E. Faria Junior, J. M. Bauer, B. Peng, B. Monserrat, M. Gmitra, J. Fabian, S. Bange, J. M. Lupton*

   Twist-angle engineering of excitonic quantum interference and optical nonlinearities in stacked 2D semiconductors

   Nature Commun. 12, 1553 (2021).

6. 6. K.-Q. Lin^#,*, J. Holler^#, J. M. Bauer, M. Scheuck, B. Peng, T. Korn, S. Bange, J. M. Lupton, C. Schüller*

   Large-scale mapping of moiré superlattices by Raman imaging of interlayer breathing mode and moiré phonons

   Adv. Mater. 33, 2008333 (2021).

7. 7. K.-Q. Lin*

   A road map for interlayer excitons

   Light Sci. Appl. 10, 99 (2021).

   (Invited Commentary)

8. 8. K.-Q. Lin*, S. Bange, J. M. Lupton*

   Quantum interference in second-harmonic generation from monolayer WSe₂

   Nature Phys. 15, 242 (2019).

9. 9. K.-Q. Lin, J. Yi, J.-H. Zhong, S. Hu, B.-J. Liu, J.-Y. Liu, C. Zong, Z.-C. Lei, X. Wang*, J. Aizpurua, R. Esteban*, B. Ren*

   Plasmonic photoluminescence for recovering native chemical information from surface enhanced Raman scattering

   Nature Commun. 8, 14891 (2017).