{"id":585368,"date":"2026-05-15T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585368\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:25:10","slug":"top-singapore-based-physicist-relocates-to-china-after-superconductor-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585368\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Singapore-based physicist relocates to China after superconductor breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Lin Er Chow, a physicist who designed a groundbreaking copper-free superconducting oxide capable of high-temperature superconductivity, has joined Zhejiang University from the National University of Singapore (NUS).<\/p>\n

Last year, at 27, Chow published the findings in the journal Nature, marking the first top-tier publication for the NUS lab since its establishment two decades ago.<\/p>\n

Confirming that he had joined Zhejiang University full-time, Chow said: \u201cI really like Hangzhou\u2019s living environment [and] the scenery around West Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also pointed to his connections to China, noting that his grandfather was of Chinese descent and his wife is Chinese.<\/p>\n

At NUS in 2022, Chow became the youngest recipient of the Best Graduate Researcher Award during his PhD studies. Immediately after graduation at 26 years old, he was offered a position at the university as a research fellow.<\/p>\n

\"PhysicistPhysicist Stephen Lin Er Chow, who has relocated from Singapore to China. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

He arrived in China through Zhejiang University\u2019s \u201c100 Young Professors\u201d programme and is a principal investigator at the elite research university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Lin Er Chow, a physicist who designed a groundbreaking copper-free superconducting oxide capable of high-temperature superconductivity, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[114425,105803,200067,6875,42379,548,200071,83489,200065,200066,200069,2302,90,28111,200070,56,54,55,133332,200068],"class_list":["post-585368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-ipoh","tag-american-physical-society","tag-china-science-daily","tag-hong-kong","tag-national-university-of-singapore","tag-nature","tag-nickel-oxides","tag-nobel-prize-in-physics","tag-nus","tag-perak","tag-phys-org","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-stephen-lin-er-chow","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zhejiang-university","tag-zju"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}