Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Non-Hermitian skin effects and non-reciprocal transport
• Non-Hermitian topology and generalized bulk-boundary correspondence
• Exceptional points and related sensing phenomena
• PT-symmetric and gain-loss-engineered systems
• Non-Hermitian photonic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials
• Open quantum systems and driven-dissipative condensed matter
• Experimental realizations and applications of non-Hermitian phenomena

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Kun Ding, PhD, Fudan University, China

Kun Ding is a Professor at the Department of Physics, Fudan University. His research focuses on non-Hermitian physics and Casimir physics, with particular emphasis on exceptional points, non-trivial geometry in non-Hermitian systems, and nonlinear phenomena.

Linhu Li, PhD, Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China

Linhu Li is a Researcher at the Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen, China. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the Beijing Computational Science Research Center from 2015 to 2017, and the National University of Singapore from 2017 to 2020. Before joining the current institute, he worked at the Sun Yat-sen University as an associate professor from 2020 to 2025. Dr. Li’s research is in the fields of theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum simulations, mainly focusing on topological phases of matter, non-Hermitian physics, and open quantum systems.

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