Shengchao Li graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2013 with a Bachelor's degree in Physics, and earned a Master's degree in Particle Physics from the same university in 2015. In 2020, he earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Virginia Tech in the United States, where he continued to research as a postdoctoral associate at Purdue University. In August 2023, he joined Westlake University as an assistant professor, with research interests focused on the experimental detection of dark matter and neutrinos.

Dr. Shengchao Li works on the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment, the CHANDLER Neutrino Experiment, the XENON1T/nT Dark Matter Experiment, and the Windchime Dark Matter Experiment. His research focuses on the development of experimental systems and innovative technologies related to neutrinos and dark matter, to explore new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. His related research has achieved the following pioneering results:

1.    Using ton-scale dual-phase liquid xenon detectors to explore a vast spectrum of dark matter models (e.g., WIMPs), broadening the horizon of the dark matter search by overcoming key limitations, probing new theoretical models. Detector calibration R&Ds towards the next-generation experiment.

2.    Fully utilizing the development of quantum sensing technology, develop pathfinders for an innovative large-scale accelerometer array, equipped with quantum devices at the standard quantum limit, to provide a new path for the exploration of dark matter via gravitational interaction alone.

3.    Developed innovative near-reactor plastic scintillator neutrino detectors, utilized a neutron beam for energy calibration. Successfully measured the reactor neutrino spectrum in a surface-level environment, towards the test of sterile neutrino hypothesis and reactor monitoring applications.

4.    Using liquid scintillator detectors to analyze and reconstruct neutrino inverse beta decay signals at different baselines, and to characterize the background induced by cosmic rays. The experiment provided a precise measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters and reactor neutrino spectra, while providing a deeper understanding of nuclear reactions related to neutrinos.

1.     S. Li* (XENON Collaboration); Searching for heavy dark matter near the Planck mass with XENON1T, Physical Review Letters, 2023. (Accepted)

2.     S. Li (XENON Collaboration); Search for New Physics in Electronic Recoil Data from XENONnT, Physical Review Letters, 2022, 129(16)

3.     S. Li (XENON Collaboration); Emission of single and few electrons in XENON1T and limits on light dark matter, Physical Review D, 2022, 106(2)

4.     Awe, C.; Barbeau, P.; Haghighat, A.; Hedges, S.; Johnson, T.; Li, S.*; Link, J. M.; Mascolino, V; Runge, J.; Steenis, J.; Subedi, T.; Walkup, K.; Measurement of proton quenching in a plastic scintillator detector, JINST, 2021, 16(2)

5.    Alireza Haghighat; Patrick Huber; Shengchao Li; Jonathan M. Link; Camillo Mariani; Jaewon Park; Tulasi Subedi; Observation of Reactor Antineutrinos with a Rapidly Deployable Surface- Level Detector, Physical Review Applied, 2020, 13(3)

6.     S. C. Li (Daya Bay Collaboration); Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Oscillation with 1958 Days of Operation at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2018, 121(24)

7.     S. C. Li (Daya Bay Collaboration); Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2017, 118(25)

8.     S. C. Li (Daya Bay Collaboration); Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116(6)

9.     S. C. Li (Daya Bay Collaboration); Improved Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino with the Full Configuration of the Daya Bay Experiment, Physical Review Letters, 2016, 117(15): 1-7

10.  S. C. Li (Daya Bay Collaboration); New Measurement of Antineutrino Oscillation with the Full Detector Configuration at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115(11)