
Welcome to the Gao Group!
We are an interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, and materials scientists driven by a passion for ultrafast science. Our mission is to uncover the microscopic interactions that govern material properties and to control them using advanced light sources.
We are actively recruiting postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students. If your research interests align with ours, we would love to hear from you and discuss potential projects!
For further details, please refer to the Openings page.
Research Directions
Recent Highlights

Physicists Discover Long-Predicted ‘Clock Magnetism’ in an Atomically Thin Crystal
Posted February 23, 2026

Researchers discover new channels to excite magnetic waves with terahertz light
Posted February 6, 2024




