Ruiheng Su

Education

2024—
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
PhD Candidate, Quantum Science and Engineering; advised by Professor Ali Yazdani
2018—2024
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics; advised by Professor Joshua Folk

Appointments

2024—Present
PQI Graduate Fellow
Professor Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
2021—2024
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Professor Joshua Folk, University of British Columbia
2019—2021
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Professors Takamasa Momose and Jeff Young, University of British Columbia; Professor Geordi Pang, University of Toronto

Publications

  1. 01

    Waters, D., Okounkova, A., Su, R., Zhou, B., Yao, J., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Xu, X., Zhang, Y.H., Folk, J., Yankowitz, M. Chern insulators at integer and fractional filling in moiré pentalayer graphene. Physical Review X 15, 011045 (2025). DOI ↗

    Physical Review X
  2. 02

    Su, R., Waters, D., Zhou, B., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Zhang, Y.H., Yankowitz, M., Folk, J. Moiré-driven topological electronic crystals in twisted graphene. Nature 637, 1084–1089 (2025). DOI ↗

    Nature cover
  3. 03

    Waters, D., Su, R., Thompson, E., Okounkova, A., Arreguin-Martinez, E., He, M., Hinds, K., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Xu, X., Zhang, Y.H., Folk, J., Yankowitz, M. Topological flat bands in a family of multilayer graphene moiré lattices. Nature Communications 15, 10552 (2024). DOI ↗

    Nature Communications
  4. 04

    Su, R., Kuiri, M., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Folk, J. Superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene on WSe2. Nature Materials 22, 1332–1337 (2023). DOI ↗

    Nature Materials cover

Contributed talks

  1. Imaging a Wigner crystal under external drive: Part I. APS March Meeting, Denver, CO (2026).
  2. Current-bias spectroscopy of in-plane magnetoresistance on the microtesla scale in twisted monolayer–trilayer graphene. APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN (2024).
  3. Moiré-localized flat bands in a family of twisted Bernal-stacked graphene multilayers. APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN (2024).
  4. Integer quantum anomalous Hall effect at fractional filling in twisted bilayer–trilayer graphene. Quantropy Meeting, Zürich, Switzerland (2024).
  5. Superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene stabilized by WSe2. APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV (2023).

Poster presentations

  1. Quantized anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer–trilayer graphene. Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter Winter Workshop, University of Washington (2024).
  2. Superconductivity and isospin order in twisted double bilayer graphene on WSe2. SBQMI International Scientific Advisory Board Meeting (2023).
  3. Electronic phases of twisted double bilayer graphene on WSe2. CIFAR Quantum Materials Program Spring School (2023).

Awards and honors

2025
Princeton Quantum Initiative Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University
2023
Edward G. Auld Prize in Engineering Physics, UBC
2023
Undergraduate Student Research Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2023
First Place Poster Award, International Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, SBQMI
2022
Trek Excellence Scholarship, UBC
2018
Academic Bronze Medal, The Governor General of Canada