Ruqian Wu

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Ruqian Wu is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). His primary research area is condensed matter physics. [1]

He gained a Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica [2]

He was awarded the status of Fellow [3] in the American Physical Society, [4] after he was nominated by their Division of Computational Physics in 2001, [5] for contributions to the understanding of magnetic, electronic, mechanical, chemical and optical properties of compounds, alloys, interfaces, thin films and surfaces using first-principles calculations and for development of the methods and codes for such components.

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  2. "Ruqian Wu". UCI. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
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