Professor Yang Hongxin is currently a Qiushi Distinguished Professor at the School of Physics, Zhejiang University, and a core researcher at the Zhejiang University Center for Quantum Materials and Devices. He has long been engaged in basic and applied research on spintronics, focusing on topological magnetic structures and magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). He has formed systematic achievements in the development of theoretical and computational methods for antisymmetric exchange coupling (DMI), perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and magnetic read/write; the exploration of physical mechanisms; the development of material systems; and the design of spintronic devices. He established the real-space spin spiral state short spin wave supercell method for calculating DMI and the reciprocal-space generalized Bloch theorem method for calculating DMI in VASP, which are widely used by international peers. He predicted DMI at various ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal and light element interfaces, which was experimentally verified, and predicted that two-dimensional Janus magnets with broken spatial inversion symmetry possess intrinsic DMI and magnetic skyrmions. He proposed a completely new magnetic writing method of perpendicular magnetization switching via antisymmetric exchange coupling torque, as well as a new all-voltage-controlled magnetic writing scheme for in-plane magnetization switching via bimeron torque, providing a theoretical basis for ultra-low-power DMI-torque magnetic random-access memory. In 2026, he and collaborators published "Semiconducting and magnetic lanthanide MXenes from intercalated halides" in *Nature*, achieving atomic manufacturing of lanthanide MXene magnetic semiconductors and demonstrating the ability of intercalation strategies to create novel quantum materials. He has published more than 140 SCI papers in *Nature Reviews Physics*, *Nature Materials*, *Nature Nanotechnology*, *Physical Review Letters* (11 papers), *Nature Communications*, and others, with more than 8,700 citations and an H-index of 40. He was selected as an Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar in the field of physics in 2023 and 2024. At the conference's AI + Future Materials Forum, he plans to share first-principles calculations and device design of two-dimensional magnetic and intercalated materials.
Important Honors: Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University; National Overseas High-Level Young Talent Project (2017); Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar in Physics (2023, 2024); IEEE Senior Member; Chair of the "Spin Textures and Chiral Magnetism in 2D Materials" session at the APS March Meeting.
