Professor Jianming Lu obtained his Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2011. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the High Field Magnet Laboratory in Nijmegen, the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and at HKUST.

His research interests focus on exploring novel physical phenomena—such as superconductivity, topology, and magnetism—in correlated electron systems including low-dimensional quantum materials and van der Waals heterostructures, primarily through electrical transport measurements under low-temperature and high-magnetic-field environments. He also investigates various experimental techniques, such as ionic-liquid gating, extreme high-pressure tuning, and quantum capacitance characterization, to probe thermodynamic intrinsic parameters of correlated electron systems.

Over the past five years, aiming at the development of next-generation low-power quantum prototype devices, he has contributed solutions in the field of two-dimensional van der Waals materials and their heterostructures. By employing low-temperature high-field transport measurements, he has studied emergent lattice/electronic ordered states—such as ferroelectricity, topology, and superconductivity—at heterostructure interfaces, resulting in 19 publications, including 15 as corresponding author.