Qirui Cui

Education:
2018.09-2022.07: Ph. D in Condensed Matter Physics, Joint cultivation under University of Nottingham (UoN) and Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNITECH).
2018.02-2018.06: Visiting Student at the Department of Physics, Fudan University, China.
2014.09-2018.07: B. Sc in Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China (NPU).

Work experience:
2024.01-now: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering Sciences, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center Stockholm, Sweden.
2026.07-2026.08: Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Artificial-intelligence Materials Synthesis Center, Yongjiang Laboratory, Ningbo, China.
2022.07-2024.01: Distinguished Young Researcher, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China.

Awards and honour:
2026: The Best oral presentation at the European Conference PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM (1st/79)
2026: Sweden Göran Gustafsson Prize for Young Researchers (The youngest laureate in the foundation's history)
2023: Special Research Assistant Foundation, CAS
2022: Distinguished Young Researcher, CAS
2021-2022: Enterprise Special Scholarship, CNITECH
2021-2022: Young Academic Star, CNITECH
2020-2021: Director’s Scholarship, CNITECH (The top postgraduate honor)
2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022: Merit Student of CNITECH
2015-2016, 2016-2017: The First-Class Scholarship of NPU (Top 10%)
2014-2015: The Second-Class Scholarship of NPU

Projects:
1. Project title:Topological Antiferromagnetism in vdW Antiferromagnets;Period:2026.07–2027.12;Amount:1,250,000 SEK;Funding source: Göran Gustafsson Foundation;Role:Principal applicant/Principal investigator

2. Project title:Antiferromagnetic topological magnetic structure in two-dimensional magnets;Period:2022.09–2023.12;Amount:1,000,000 CNY ≈ 1,330,000 SEK;Funding source:Chinese Academy of Sciences;Role:Principal applicant/Principal investigator

3. Project title:Antiferromagnetic topological spin configurations in van der Waals magnets;Period:2022.09–2023.12;Amount:600,000 CNY ≈ 798,000 SEK;Funding source:Special Research Assistant Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences;Role:Principal applicant/Principal investigator

4. Project title:Multiferroic control of topological magnetic structures in two-dimensional magnetic materials;Period:2022.01–2025.12;Amount:620,000 CNY ≈ 830,000 SEK;Funding source:National Natural Science Foundation of China;Role:Co-applicants/Participant /Co-investigator

5. Project title:Magnetic skyrmion-based memory devices and logic operations;Period:2021.07–2024.07;Amount:1,000,000 CNY ≈ 1,330,000 SEK;Funding source:“Ningbo 2025” Major Project (municipal key programme);Role:Co-applicants/Participant/Co-investigator

6. Project title:High-throughput computational design of two-dimensional magnetoelectric composites and multi-field control of their topological magnetic structures;Period:2022.01–2025.12;Amount:620,000 CNY ≈ 830,000 SEK;Funding source:National Natural Science Foundation of China;Role:Co-applicants/Participant/Co-investigator

7. Project title:Development of novel high-speed, low-power spin-orbit-torque magnetic random-access-memory (SOT-MRAM) chips;Period:2022.01–2024.12;Amount:2,000,000 CNY ≈ 2,660,000 SEK;Funding source:Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province;Role:Co-applicants/Participant/Co-investigator