{"id":825164,"date":"2026-08-25T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:24:10","slug":"debate-star-and-physicist-guo-yanliang-leaves-a-top-european-quantum-lab-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825164\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate star and physicist Guo Yanliang leaves a top European quantum lab for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Guo Yanliang, a champion debater who honed his argumentation skills in international contests and on online variety shows, has left one of Europe\u2019s top quantum laboratories to set up his own research group in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Guo, 33, says he sees scientific research as a debate between different opinions, which made him more compatible with China than Europe.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This year, he returned to China to take a position as associate professor at Renmin University of China where he is building an ultracold atom experiment platform.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While he has had papers published in Science and Nature and secured a spot on MIT Technology Review\u2019s \u201cInnovators Under 35 China\u201d list, the physicist says he returned because China offered better support for his long\u2011term research goals.<\/p>\n<p>Why are more Chinese scientists leaving the US to return to China?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe research environment here is more in line with my research characteristics,\u201d he told DeepTech, the Chinese branch of MIT Technology Review, last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guo Yanliang, a champion debater who honed his argumentation skills in international contests and on online variety shows,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3995,28,144,101,5425,149,3,1767,199,79,33670,1079,74,25,4477],"class_list":["post-825164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}