Academic Qualification

Ph.D. Physics, Dec. 2014, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Bachelor in Physics, Jun. 2009, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Teaching Area

General Physics

Mechatronics

Experiment on Engineering Science

Research Area

Quantum Engineering: Development of diamond quantum sensing technology

Application of diamond quantum sensing in material science, earth and planetary science and cell biology

Novel quantum phases in open quantum systems and strongly correlated systems

Working Experience

Sep. 2022 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science, MUST

Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2022, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, CUHK

Oct. 2014 - Apr. 2019, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, CUHK

Academic Publication (selected)

1.      Yue Cui, Weng-Hang Leong, Guoli Zhu, Ren-Bao Liu, and Quan Li, Nanodiamond-Based Spatial-Temporal Deformation Sensing for Cell Mechanics, arXiv:2406.18577 (2024).

2.      Ruqiang Dou, Guoli Zhu, Weng-Hang Leong, Xi Feng, Zan Li, Chao Lin, Shuo Wang, and Quan Li, In Operando Nanothermometry by Nanodiamond Based Temperature Sensing, Carbon 203, 534 (2023).

3.      Yue Cui*, Weng-Hang Leong*, Chu-Feng Liu, Kangwei Xia, Xi Feng, Csilla Gergely, Ren-Bao Liu, and Quan Li, Revealing Capillarity in AFM Indentation of Cells by NanodiamondBased Nonlocal Deformation Sensing, Nano Letters 22, 3889 (2022).

4.      Xi Feng*, Weng-Hang Leong*, Kangwei Xia*, Chu-Feng Liu, Gang-Qin Liu, Torsten Rendler, Jörg Wrachtrup, Ren-Bao Liu, and Quan Li, Association of Nanodiamond Rotation Dynamics with Cell Activities by Translation-Rotation Tracking, Nano Letters 21, 3393 (2021).

5.      Chu-Feng Liu*, Weng-Hang Leong*, Kangwei Xia*, Xi Feng, Amit Finkler, Andrej Denisenko, Jörg Wrachtrup, Quan Li, and Ren-Bao Liu, Ultra-Sensitive Hybrid Diamond Nanothermometer, National

6.      Science Review, nwaa194 (2020).

7.      Kangwei Xia*, Chu-Feng Liu*, Weng-Hang Leong*, Man-Hin Kwok, Zhi-Yuan Yang, Xi Feng, Ren-Bao Liu, and Quan Li, Nanometer-Precision Non-Local Deformation Reconstruction Using Nanodiamond Orientation Sensing, Nature Communications 10, 3259 (2019).

8.      Ting Zhang*, Gang-Qin Liu*, Weng-Hang Leong*, Chu-Feng Liu, Man-Hin Kwok, To Ngai, Ren-Bao Liu, and Quan Li, Hybrid Nanodiamond Quantum Sensors Enabled by Volume Phase Transitions of Hydrogels, Nature Communications 9, 3188 (2018).

9.      Ning Wang*, Gang-Qin Liu*, Weng-Hang Leong*, Hualing Zeng*, Xi Feng, Si-Hong Li, Florian Dolde, Helmut Fedder, Jörg Wrachtrup, Xiao-Dong Cui, Sen Yang, Quan Li, and Ren- Bao Liu, Magnetic Criticality Enhanced Hybrid Nanodiamond Thermometer under Ambient Conditions, Physical Review X 8, 011042 (2018).

10.  Weng-Hang Leong, Shun-Li Yu, T. Xiang, and Jian-Xin Li, Localized In-Gap State in a Single-Electron Doped Mott Insulator, Physical Review B 90, 245102 (2014).

Research Grants

2023.05 -- present    Development and Application of Nanodiamond Magnetic Microscopy in Meteorite Paleomagnetism (FDCT, Macao)

2020.09 -- 2022.08    Study on glassy transition of polymer ultrathin films by thermo-mechanical diamond sensing (RGC/GRF, Hong Kong)

2020-04 -- 2021-03         Adhesive contact model validation by diamond sensing upon nanoindentation (CUHK Direct Grant, Hong Kong)