1991 – 1995, Bachelor, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

1995 – 2000, Doctoral, Department of Modern Physics & Nonlinear Science Center, University of Science and Technology of China

2000.09 - 2003.03, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics & Nonlinear Research Center, Hong Kong Baptist University

2003.10 - 2005.10, Postdoctoral Fellow, Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore

2005.10 - 2007.12, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore

2008.01 – Present, Professor, Department of Physics, Renmin University of China

1. Nonlinear Dynamics;

2. Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, with applications to heat conduction in low-dimensional microscopic systems;

3. Theoretical studies and simulations of complex systems, including economic and transportation systems.

I have publised more than 40 papers in international academic journals, including 8 papers in Physical Review Letters. In collaboration with Professor Baowen Li from the Department of Physics at the National University of Singapore, significant progress was made in the research on "thermal logic gates based on phonon computation," which was listed by the American Physical Society (APS) in Physics News in 2007. This work provided a theoretical foundation for the development and realization of "phonon computers," becoming a new growth point in the frontier research of thermal flow control.

(1) Baowen Li, Lei Wang, and Bambi Hu, “Finite Thermal Conductivity in 1D Models Having Zero Lyapunov Exponents”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 223901 (2002).

(2) Baowen Li, Lei Wang, and Giulio Casati, “Thermal diode: Rectification of heat flux”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184301 (2004).

(3) Baowen Li, Lei Wang, and Giulio Casati, “Negative differential thermal resistance and thermal transistor”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 143501 (2006).

(4) Lei Wang and Baowen Li, “Thermal logic gates: Computation with phonons”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177208 (2007).

(5) Lei Wang, Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, and Baowen Li, “The ratchet effect and the transporting islands in the chaotic sea”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 244101 (2007).

(6) Lei Wang and Baowen Li, “Phononics gets hot”, Physics World 21, 27 (2008).

(7) Lei Wang and Baowen Li, “Thermal memory: A storage of phononic information”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 267203 (2008).

(8) Lei Wang, Dahai He, and Bambi Hu, “Heat Conduction in a Three-Dimensional Momentum-Conserving Anharmonic Lattice”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160601 (2010).

(9) Lei Wang and Ting Wang, “Power-Law divergent heat conductivity in one-dimensional momentum-conserving nonlinear lattices”, Europhys. Lett., 93, 54002 (2011).

(10) Nianbei Li, Jie Ren, Lei Wang, Gang Zhang, Peter Hanggi, and Baowen Li, “Colloquium: Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond”, Rev. Mod. Phys., 84, 1045 (2012).