About Yuqiang Ma’s work
Based at Nanjing University, Yuqiang Ma held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from May to November 2002.
Biography
Yuqiang Ma received his PhD in science from Nanjing University in 1993, was appointed as a professor of physics at Nanjing University in 1995, was selected into the Cross-Century Excellent Talent Training Program of the Ministry of Education in 1997, was awarded the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1999, was selected as a Distinguished professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education in 2001. He is currently the Director of the Research Center for Frontier Theory of Physical Science at Nanjing University.
Ma studies soft matter physics, and is committed to the use of statistical physics to study the non-equilibrium collective movement of active matter and the interface physics of cells in living matter. In terms of the theory and microscopic mechanism of macroscopic collective motion of active matter, he established the dynamic equation that can correctly describe the macroscopic collective motion of active matter. The anomalous superdiffusion dynamics of macroscopic collective motion instability resulting from microscopic topological defects are further clarified.