Dr Shiwei Wu is currently Xie Xide Chair Professor of Physics and the director of Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (MOE) at Fudan University. His research focuses on the optical microscopy and spectroscopy of low-dimensional materials, with the effort of developing the novel experimental methods to solve cutting-edge problems in condensed matter physics. He obtained his bachelor degree from Fudan University in 2001 and his PhD degree from University of California, Irvine in 2007. Before joining the department of physics at Fudan in 2011, he worked in the Molecular Foundry of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoc fellow.