工作和教育经历：

      2026.05–至今北京科技大学前沿交叉科学技术研究院，特聘教授

      2022.09–2026.06 斯坦福大学，博士后（合作导师：Arun Majumdar院士、R.Ramesh院士、崔屹院士）

      2016.07–2022.07 清华大学，博士（导师：朱静院士）

      2012.09–2016.07中国地质大学（武汉），学士

研究方向：

       依托先进电子显微镜平台，发展高空间分辨表征技术，研究集成电子器件材料在工况条件下的结构—物性关联机制。

科研成果：

       围绕磁光、磁电及外延薄膜器件的失效分析，以及氧化物半导体材料的物性调控机制，取得多项原创性研究成果（https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=rsgRkmkAAAAJ）；同时发展了先进的高空间分辨磁性探测技术，为复杂功能材料中局域结构、电子态与磁性行为的关联研究提供了重要表征手段。相关成果发表在PNAS、Nature Energy、Nature Communications、JACS、Nano Letters等国际知名学术期刊，并获授权国家发明专利一项。现担任Microstructures期刊青年编委。

代表性论文：

      1. Kun Xu#, Luo Zhang, Andy Godfrey, Dongsheng Song, Wenlong Si, Yan Zhao, Yichao Liu, Yiheng Rao, Hongrui Zhang, Heng-An Zhou, Wanjun Jiang, Weiyao Wang, Zhenxiang Cheng & Jing Zhu. Atomic-scale insights into quantum-order parameters in bismuth-doped iron garnet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, e2101106118 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101106118

      2. Kun Xu#, Ting Lin, Yiheng Rao, Ziqiang Wang, Qinghui Yang, Huaiwu Zhang & Jing Zhu. Direct investigation of the atomic structure and decreased magnetism of antiphase boundaries in garnet. Nature Communications 13, 3206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30992-3

      3. Chuanrui Huo, Kun Xu#, Liyang Ma, Tianyu Li, Hao Li, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiaojun Kuang, Shi Liu, Shiqing Deng & Jun Chen. Colossal ionic conductivity in interphase strain-engineered nanocomposite films. Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 13623-13631 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c01298

      4. Kun Xu#,*, Shih-Wei Hung, Wenlong Si, Yongshun Wu, Chuanrui Huo, Pu Yu, Xiaoyan Zhong & Jing Zhu. Topotactically transformable antiphase boundaries with enhanced ionic conductivity. Nature Communications 14, 7382 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43086-5

      5. Hongrui Zhang, Yu-Tsun Shao, Xiang Chen, Binhua Zhang, Tianye Wang, Fanhao Meng, Kun Xu, Peter Meisenheimer, Xianzhe Chen, Xiaoxi Huang, Piush Behera, Sajid Husain, Tiancong Zhu, Hao Pan, Yanli Jia, Nick Settineri, Nathan Giles-Donovan, Zehao He, Andreas Scholl, Alpha N’Diaye, Padraic Shafer, Archana Raja, Changsong Xu, Lane W. Martin, Michael F. Crommie, Jie Yao, Ziqiang Qiu, Arun Majumdar, Laurent Bellaiche, David A. Muller, Robert J. Birgeneau & Ramamoorthy Ramesh. Spin disorder control of topological spin texture. Nature Communications 15, 3828 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47715-5

      6. Lisha Liu, Jiaojiao Yi, Kun Xu#, Zhen Liu, Mingmeng Tang, Le Dai, Xuan Gao, Yang Liu, Shuhao Wang, Zhang Zhang, Liang Shu, Jing-Feng Li, Shujun Zhang & Yaojin Wang. High piezoelectric property with exceptional stability in self-poled ferroelectric films. Nature Communications 15, 10798 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54707-y

      7. Lin Yuan, Briley B. Bourgeois, Elijah Begin, Yirui Zhang, Alan X. Dai, Zhihua Cheng, Amy S. McKeown-Green, Zhichen Xue, Yi Cui, Kun Xu, Yu Wang, Matthew R. Jones, Yi Cui, Arun Majumdar, Junwei Lucas Bao & Jennifer A. Dionne. Atmospheric-pressure ammonia synthesis on AuRu catalysts enabled by plasmon-controlled hydrogenation and nitrogen-species desorption. Nature Energy 11, 98-108 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01911-9

      8. Yi Cui, Kun Xu#, Peiwen Ren, Lin Yuan, Pawel Czaja, Andrew Barnum, Prasanna Sarkar, Aaron Altman, Karen Bustillo, Sudipta Kundu, Akash Ramdas, Xueji Wang, Gang Wan, Yu Wang, Jiayue Wang, Chengyu Song, Cedric Lim, Qi Zheng, Helen Yao, Tony Heinz, Harold Y. Hwang, Arun Majumdar, Jennifer A. Dionne, Colin Ophus, Felipe H. da Jornada, Robert Sinclair & Yi Cui. Atomic-scale moiré and electronic structure analysis of twisted epitaxial MoS2-Au-MoS2 heterostructures. Nano Letters 26, 2932-2939 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c04205