Xiaoqin LiDr. Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li received her PhD in physics in 2003 from the University of Michigan, where she worked with Prof. Duncan Steel. In 2007, she joined the University of Texas-Austin after working with Prof. Steven Cundiff as a postdoctoral researher at JILA, Colorado. Her research interests include fundamental optical properties of individual semiconductor and metallic nanoparticles or assembled clusters, metasurfaces. Her group is broadly interested in fundamental and collective excitations in solids such as phonons, excitons, magnons, and plasmons in a wide range of materials and how these excitations couple to each other to enable new properties. Recently, her group has worked on the assembly and characterization of artificial plasmonic nanoclusters, ultrafast spectroscopy studies of exciton physics in atomically thin semiconductors, and controlling magnons in magnetic multilayers. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Read More Read Less