Ximin Cui received his B.S. degree in physics from Nanjing University in 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in physics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018, working under the supervision of Prof. Jianfang Wang. He joined the group of Prof. Mikael Käll at Chalmers University of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow from

2019 to 2021. He is currently an assistant professor at the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University. He has published more than 20 journal papers in the fields of plasmonics, nanophotonics, and optical tweezers.

[1]09/2010 – 07/2014   B.S., Physics, Kuang Yaming Honors School, Nanjing University, China

[2]08/2014 – 07/2018   Ph.D., Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

[1]08/2018 – 07/2019   Postdoc, Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

[2]09/2019 – 08/2021    Postdoc, Nano and Biophysics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

[3]10/2021 – current   Assistant Professor, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, China

[1]C N Yang Scholarship, Department of Physics, CUHK, 2018

[2]Nanjing University Outstanding Graduate Honor, 2014

[3]Kuang Yaming Honors School Award of Sciences &Arts, 2013

[1]Synthesis, assembly, optical properties and applications of metal nanocrystals and their hybrid functional structures.

[2]Optical tweezers, quantum plasmonics, plasmon coupling between plasmon and other optical species and plasmonic colour printing.

[1]X. M. Cui, V. Mylnikov, P. Johansson, M. Käll,* Synchronization of optically self-assembled nanorotors, Sci. Adv., 10, eadn3485 (2024).

[2]X. M. Cui,# Q. F. Ruan,# X. L. Zhuo,# X. Y. Xia, J. T. Hu, R. F. Fu, Y. Li, J. F. Wang,* H. X. Xu,* Photothermal nanomaterials: a powerful light-to-heat converter, Chem. Rev., 123, 6891 (2023).

[3]X. M. Cui, Y. H. Lai, R. Q. Ai, H. Wang, L. Shao, H. J. Chen, W. Zhang, J. F. Wang,* Anapole states and toroidal resonances realized in simple gold nanoplate-on-mirror structures, Adv. Opt. Mater., 8, 2001173 (2020).

[4]X. M. Cui,# X. L. Zhu,# L. Shao, J. F. Wang,* A. Kristensen,* Plasmonic color laser printing inside transparent gold nanodisk-embedded poly(dimethylsiloxane) matrices, Adv. Opt. Mater., 8, 1901605 (2020).

[5]X. M. Cui, Y. H. Lai, F. Qin,* L. Shao, J. F. Wang,* H.-Q. Lin, Strengthening Fano resonance on gold nanoplates with gold nanospheres, Nanoscale, 12, 1975, (2020).

[6]X. M. Cui, F. Qin, Y. H. Lai, H. Wang, L. Shao,* H. J. Chen, J. F. Wang,* H.-Q. Lin,* Molecular tunnel junction-controlled high-order charge transfer plasmon and Fano resonances, ACS Nano, 12, 12541 (2018).

[7]X. M. Cui, F. Qin, Q. F. Ruan, X. L. Zhuo, J. F. Wang,* Circular gold nanodisks with synthetically tunable diameters and thicknesses, Adv. Funct. Mater., 28, 1705516 (2018).