Satoshi Aya（谢晓晨）

谢晓晨 Satoshi Aya

华南理工大学，教授

South China University of Technology，Professor

液晶物理与材料领域专家

谢晓晨（Satoshi Aya），华南理工大学华南软物质科学与技术高等研究院教授、博士生导师。2006年至2014年于东京工业大学获有机物质材料学士、有机高分子物质物理硕士及博士学位，师从竹添秀男、石川谦等学者。2014年起历任日立高科技株式会社科研工程师、日本理化学研究所特别研究员及基础科学特别研究员，2019年入职华南理工大学任特聘研究员。

谢晓晨研究方向聚焦液晶、高分子及胶体等软物质的物理基础与功能应用，涵盖液晶态物理、表面物理、粘弹性物理及胶体颗粒人工设计等领域。其团队在铁电液晶中发现普遍存在的电极化拓扑结构，阐明极性环状拓扑产生机制，相关成果发表于《Nature Physics》。主持国家自然科学基金项目、日本学术振兴会项目2项，在《Nature Physics》《Physical Review Letters》等期刊发表SCI论文，申请中日美专利7项。入选广东省“珠江人才计划青年拔尖人才” 。

Xiaochen Xie (Satoshi Aya), Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Advanced Institute of Soft Matter Science and Technology, South China University of Technology. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Organic Materials, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Organic Polymer Physics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology between 2006 and 2014, under the supervision of renowned scholars including Hideo Takezoe and Ken Ishikawa. Starting from 2014, he held successive positions as a Research Engineer at Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, a Special Researcher and a Special Researcher for Basic Science at the RIKEN (Japan Institute of Physical and Chemical Research). He joined South China University of Technology in 2019 as a Distinguished Researcher.

Dr. Xie’s research focuses on the fundamental physics and functional applications of soft matter such as liquid crystals, polymers, and colloids, covering fields including liquid crystal physics, surface physics, viscoelasticity physics, and the artificial design of colloidal particles. His team discovered the universally existing electric polarization topological structures in ferroelectric liquid crystals and clarified the generation mechanism of polar cyclic topologies, with the relevant findings published in Nature Physics. He has presided over projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and two projects supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has published SCI papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Physics and Physical Review Letters, and filed 7 patents in China, Japan, and the United States. He was selected into the "Pearl River Talents Plan" Young Top Talents of Guangdong Province.