2003年毕业于中国科学技术大学材料科学与工程系，获得理学学士学位；2010年于美国衣阿华州立大学天文与物理系获得凝聚态物理学博士学位；2010年至2015年在美国橡树岭国家实验室中子散射中心和田纳西大学天文与物理系担任博士后研究员；2015年加入上海交通大学物理与天文系。长期从事凝聚态物理前沿实验研究方面的工作，尤其是运用中子散射及同步辐射X光技术对强关联体系功能材料的晶体结构、声子谱和磁子谱进行研究，探讨材料中电子、磁子、声子和轨道等相互作用及其导致的诸如电荷有序、轨道晶格耦合、自旋晶格相互作用等新奇量子效应和物理现象，以及这些效应对功能材料中各种性能的影响。已在Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society 等国际主流杂志上发表论文112篇，引用7300余次，专利1项。

Education 

Degree                                      Year                           Major                            Institution

 Ph.D.                                         2004 - 2010                Physics                           Iowa State Univ.

 B.S.                                           1998 - 2003                MSE                                Univ. Sci. and Techn. of China

Research Experience

Year                                              Position                                                        Institution 

2023 - Present                              Professor                                                       School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2022 - 2022                              Associate Professor (with tenure)               School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

2015 - 2021                                  Associate Professor (tenure track)                School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

2014 - 2015                                  Postdoctoral                                                  University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

2010 - 2014                                  Postdoctoral                                                  QCMD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

Research Interests:

 1) Thermoelectric materials
 2) Geometrically frustrated magnets
 3) Low-dimensional magnetic system
 4) Multiferroicity and transition-metal oxides
 5) Superconductor
 6) Neutron and X-ray scattering

1. Vacancies tailoring lattice anharmonicity of Zintl-type thermoelectrics, J. Zhu, Q. Ren, C. Chen, C. Wang, M. Shu, M. He, C. Zhang, M. Le, S. Torri, C.-W. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Cheng, L. Li, G. Wang, Y. Jiang, M. Wu, Z. Qu, X. Tong, Y. Chen, Q. Zhang, and J. Ma, Nat. Comm. 15, 2618 (2024)

2. Static and dynamical properties of the spin- 5/2 nearly ideal triangular lattice antiferromagnet Ba₃MnSb₂O₉, M. Shu, W. Dong, J. Jiao, J. Wu, G. Lin, Y. Kamiya, Tao Hong, H. Cao, M. Matsuda, W. Tian, S. Chi, G. Ehlers, Z. Ouyang, H. Chen, Y. Zou, Z. Qu, Q. Huang, H. D. Zhou, and J. Ma, Phys. Rev. B 108, 174424 (2023)

3. Strong phonon softening and avoided crossing in aliovalence-doped heavy-band thermoelectrics, S. Han, S. Dai, J. Ma, Q. Ren, C. Hu, Z. . Gao, M. Duc Le, D. Sheptyakov, P. Miao, S. Torii, T. Kamiyama, C. Felser, J. Yang, C. Fu, and T. Zhu, Nat. Phys. 19, 1649 (2023)

4. Extreme phonon anharmonicity underpins superionic diffusion and ultralow thermal conductivity in argyrodite Ag₈SnSe₆, Q. Ren, M. Gupta, M. Jin, J. Ding, J. Wu, Z. Chen, S. Lin, O. Fabelo, J. A. Rodríguez-Velamazán, M. Kofu, K. Nakajima, M. Wolf, F. Zhu, J. Wang, Z. Cheng, G. Wang, X. Tong, Y. Pei, O. Delaire, and J. Ma, Nat. Mater. 22, 999 (2023)

5. Spins don't align here, Jie Ma, Nat. Phys. 19, 922 (2023)

6. Topological Crystalline Insulator Candidate ErAsS with Hourglass Fermion and Magnetic-Tuned Topological Phase Transition, Hongxiang Chen, Jiacheng Gao, Long Chen, Gang Wang, Hang Li, Yulong Wang, Juanjuan Liu, Jinchen Wang, Daiyu Geng, Qinghua Zhang, Jieming Sheng, Feng Ye, Tian Qian, Lan Chen, Hongming Weng, Jie Ma, Xiaolong Chen, Adv. Mater. 2110664 (2022)

7. Quantum Effect on the Ground State of the Triple-Perovskite Ba3MNb2O9 (M = Co, Ni, and Mn) with Triangular-Lattice, Jinlong Jiao, Shangshun Zhang, Qing Huang, M. Zhang, M.F. Shu, G. T. Lin, C. R. dela Cruz, V. O. Garlea, N. Butch, M. Matsuda, Haidong Zhou, and Jie Ma, Chem. of Mater. 34, 6617 (2022)

8. Field-induced quantum spin disordered state in spin-1/2 honeycomb magnet Na₂Co₂TeO₆, G. Lin, J. Jeong, C. Kim, Y. Wang, Q. Huang, T. Masuda, S. Asai, S. Itoh, G. Günther, M. Russina, Z. Lu, J. Sheng, L. Wang, J. Wang, G. Wang, Q. Ren, C. Xi, W. Tong, L. Ling, Z. Liu, L. Wu, J. Mei, Z. Qu, H. D. Zhou, X. Wang, J.-G. Park, Y. Wan, and J. Ma, Nat. Comm. 12, 5559 (2021)

9. Quantum Criticality and E8 Spectra of Quasi-one-dimensional Antiferromagnet BaCo₂V₂O₈ under Transverse Field, H. Zou, Y. Cui, X. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. Yang, G. Xu, A. Okutani, M. Hagiwara, M. Matsuda, G. Wang, G. Mussardo, K. Hodsagi, M. Kormos, Z. He, S. Kimura, R. Yu, W. Yu, J. Ma, and J. Wu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 077201 (2021)

10. A cost-effective and humidity-tolerant chloride solid electrolyte for lithium batteries, Kai Wang, Qingyong Ren, Zhenqi Gu, Chaomin Duan, Jinzhu Wang, Feng Zhu, Yuanyuan Fu, Jipeng Hao, Jinfeng Zhu, Lunhua He, Chin-Wei Wang, Yingying Lu, Jie Ma and Cheng Ma, Nat. Comm. 12, 4410 (2021)

11. Free-standing films based on Ni wires core/foamed NiO shell as hosts for stable lithium anodes, Gang Li, Shiwei Xu, Bin Li, Tong Xia, Jian Yu, Feng Shao, Hong Li, Zhi Yang, Yanjie Su, Yafei Zhang, Jie Ma and Nantao Hu, J. of Pow. Sourc. 506, 230161 (2021)

12. Establishing the carrier scattering phase diagram for ZrNiSn-based half-Heusler thermoelectric materials, Qingyong Ren, Chenguang Fu, Qinyi Qiu, Shengnan Dai, Zheyuan Liu, Takatsugu Masuda, Shinichiro Asai, Masato Hagihala, Sanghyun Lee, Shuki Torri, Takashi Kamiyama, Lunhua He, Xin Tong, Claudia Felser, David J. Singh, Tiejun Zhu, Jiong Yang, and J. Ma, Nat. Comm. 11, 3142 (2020)

13. Negative Thermal Expansion of Ni-Doped MnCoGe at Room-Temperature Magnetic Tuning, Qingyong Ren, Wayne Hutchison, Jianli Wang, Andrew Studer, Guohua Wang, Haidong Zhou, Jie Ma, and Stewart J. Campbell, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interf. 11, 17531-17538 (2019)

14. The nature of spin excitations in the one-third magnetization plateau phase of Ba₃CoSb₂O₉, Y. Kamiya, L. Ge, Tao Hong, Y. Qiu, D. L. Quintero-Castro, Z. Lu, H. B. Cao, M. Matsuda, E. S. Choi, C. D. Batista, M. Mourigal, H. D. Zhou, and J. Ma, Nat. Comm. 9, 2666 (2018)

15. Ba₈CoNb₆O₂₄: A spin-1/2 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet in the two-dimensional limit, R. Rawl, L. Ge, H. Agrawal, Y. Kamiya, C. R. Dela Cruz, N. P. Butch, X. F. Sun, M. Lee, E. S. Choi, J. Oitmaa, C. D. Batista, M. Mourigal, H. D. Zhou, and J. Ma, Phys. Rev. B 95, 060412(R) (2017)

16. Static and Dynamic Spin Properties of the Spin-1/2 Equilateral Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet Ba₃CoSb₂O₉, J. Ma, Y. Kamiya, Tao Hong, H. B. Cao, G. Ehlers, W. Tian, C. D. Batista, Z. L. Dun, H. D. Zhou, and M. Matsuda, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 087201 (2016)

17. Melting of Pb charge glass and simultaneous Pb-Cr charge transfer in PbCrO₃ as the origin of volume collapse, R. Yu, M. Mizumaki, T. Watanuki, T. Mizokawa, K. Oka, H. Hojo, H. Kim, A. Machida, K. Sakaki, Y. Nakamura, A. Agui, D. Mori, Y. Inaguma, M. Schlipf, K. Z. Rushchanskii, M. Ležaić, M. Matsuda, J. Ma, S. Calder, M. Isobe and M. Azuma, J. of the Am. Chem. Soc. 137,12719 (2015)

18. Discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs, Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust, Madhab Neupane, Guang Bian, Chenglong Zhang, Raman Sankar, Guoqing Chang, Zhujun Yuan, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, Hao Zheng, Jie Ma, Daniel S Sanchez, BaoKai Wang, Arun Bansil, Fangcheng Chou, Pavel P Shibayev, Hsin Lin, Shuang Jia, M Zahid Hasan, Science 349, 613 (2015)

19. Strong competition between orbital-ordering and itinerancy in a frustrated spinel vanadate, J. Ma, J. H. Lee, S. E. Hahn, Tao Hong, H. B. Cao, A. A. Aczel, Z. L. Dun, M. B. Stone, W. Tian, Y. Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, H. D. Zhou, R. S. Fishman, and M. Matsuda, Phys. Rev. B 91, 020407(R) (2015)    

20. Phonon self-energy and origin of anomalous neutron scattering spectra in SnTe and PbTe thermoelectric, C.W. Li, O. Hellman, J. Ma, A.F. May, H. Cao, X. Chen, A.D. Christianson, G. Ehlers, D.J. Singh, B.C. Sales, and O. Delaire, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 175501 (2014)

21. Glass-like phonon scattering from spontaneous nanostructure in AgSbTe₂, J. Ma, O. Delaire, A. F. May, C. E. Carlton, M. A. McGuire, L. H. VanBebber, D. L. Abernathy, G. Ehlers, Tao Hong, A. Huq, Wei Tian, V. M. Keppens, Y. Shao-Horn, and B. C. Sales, Nat. Nan. 8, 445–451(2013) 

22. Giant anharmonic phonon scattering in PbTe, O. Delaire, J. Ma, K. Marty, A. F. May, M. A. McGuire, M-H. Du, D. J. Singh, A. Podlesnyak, G. Ehlers, M. D. Lumsden, and B. C. Sales, Nat. Mater. 10, 614 (2011)

23. Stabilization of Charge Ordering in La_1/3Sr_2/3FeO_3-δ by Magnetic Exchange, R. J. McQueeney, J. Ma, S. Chang, J.-Q. Yan, M. Hehlen, and F. Trouw, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 126402 (2007)