2020 -present    Professor, Department of Physics, Xiamen University
2016 - 2017    Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 - 2020    Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Xiamen University
2010 - 2011    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Xiamen University
2009 - 2010    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Nonlinear Studies , Hong Kong Baptist University
2007 - 2009    Visiting Research Scholar, Centre for Nonlinear Studies , Hong Kong Baptist University

2004 - 2008    Ph.D., Hong Kong Baptist University
2001 - 2004    M.S., Beijing Normal University
1997 - 2001    B.S., Beijing Normal University

1.    N. A. Khan and D. He*, Quantum batteries: A nonreciprocal thermal edge, PRX Energy 5, 023003 (2026).
2.    Y. Han, Y. Liu, X. Zhang, and D. He*, Effects of asymmetric interaction on thermalization: Boundary conditions and asymptotic integrability, Phys. Rev. E 113, 024112 (2026).
3.    X. Cao, C. Wang*, G. Engelhardt, H. Zheng, D. He*, Steady-state quantum coherence in driven open quantum system: An optimal transformation analysis, J. Chem. Phys. 164, 164307 (2026).
4.    Y. Liu, C. Huang, X. Zhang, and D. He*, Optimally fast qubit reset, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 100401 (2025).
5.    Y. Han, Y. Liu, and D. He*, Thermalization of one-dimensional 𝜙4 lattices: Chirikov overlap criterion and discrete breathers, Phys. Rev. E 111, 054205 (2025).
6.    N. A. Khan, X. Zhang, C. Huang, Y. Liu, and D. He*, Collective enhancement in nonreciprocal multimode quantum batteries, Phys. Rev. B 112, 104318 (2025).
7.    X. Zhang, Y. Liu, X. Cao*, and D. He*, Thermodynamic precision in nonequilibrium critical quantum systems, Phys. Rev. B 111, 235401 (2025).
8.    Z. Zhang, Y. Liu, C. Wu* and D. He*, Quantifying the driving effect of colored noise in Brownian motors, Chin. Phys. Lett. 42, 014401 (2025).
9.    Y. Liu and D. He*, Chaotic route to classical thermalization: A real-space analysis, Phys. Rev. E 109, 064115 (2024).
10.    L. Lin, Y. Wei, and D. He*, Disorder-induced spiky phonon transmission of harmonic lattices, Phys. Rev. E 109, 024129 (2024).
11.    X. Zhang, X. Cao, and D. He*, Quantum thermal chokelike behavior exhibited in a spin-boson model under noncommutative coupling, Phys. Rev. B 109, 245415 (2024).
12.    X. Cao, C. Wang*, and D. He*, Driving induced coherent quantum energy transport, Phys. Rev. B 108, 245401 (2023).
13.    Y. Wei and D. He*, Inverse design of phononic crystal with desired transmission via a gradient-descent approach, Chin. Phys. Lett. 40, 090502 (2023).
14.    J. Li and D. He*, Finite-time fluctuation theorem for oscillatory lattices driven by a temperature gradient, Phys. Rev. E 103, 062122 (2021).
15.    J. Zhu, Y. Liu and D. He*, Effects of interplay between disorder and anharmonicity on heat conduction, Phys. Rev. E 103, 062121 (2021).
16.    Y. Liu and D. He*, Analytical approach to Lyapunov time: Universal scaling and thermalization, Phys. Rev. E 103, L040203 (2021).
17.    X. Cao*, C. Wang, H. Zheng, and D. He*, Quantum thermal transport via a canonically transformed Redfield approach, Phys. Rev. B 103, 075407 (2021).
18.    Y. Liu, D. He*, Analytical measure of temperature for nonlinear dynamical systems, Phys. Rev. E 100, 052143 (2019).
19.    G.T. Craven, D. He, and A. Nitzan, Electron-transfer-induced thermal and thermoelectric rectification, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247704 (2018).
20.    D. He*, J. Thingna, J. Cao, Interfacial thermal transport with strong system-bath coupling: A phonon delocalization effect, Phys. Rev. B 97, 195437 (2018).
21.    Y. Liu, D. He*, Anomalous interfacial temperature profile induced by phonon localization, Phys. Rev. E 96, 062119 (2017).
22.    K. Chen, D. He*, and H. Zhao, Violation of the virial theorem and generalized equipartition theorem for logarithmic oscillators serving as a thermostat, Sci. Rep. 7, 3460 (2017).
23.    D. He*, J. Thingna, J.-S. Wang and B. Li, Quantum thermal transport through anharmonic systems: A self-consistent approach, Phys. Rev. B 94, 155411 (2016).
24.    X. Cao, D. He*, Interfacial thermal conduction and negative temperature jump in one-dimensional lattices, Phys. Rev. E 92, 032135 (2015).
25.    X. Cao, D. He*, H. Zhao, and B. Hu, Thermal expansion and its impacts on thermal transport in the FPU-α-β model, AIP Adv. 5, 053203 (2015).
26.    H.-K. Chan, D. He*, B. Hu, Scaling analysis of negative differential thermal resistance, Phys. Rev. E 89, 052126 (2014).
27.    L. Wang, D. He, and B. Hu, Heat conduction in a three-dimensional momentum-conserving anharmonic lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160601 (2010).
28.    D. He*, B. Ai, H. Chan, and B. Hu, Heat conduction in the nonlinear response regime: Scaling, boundary jumps, and negative differential thermal resistance, Phys. Rev. E 81, 041131 (2010).
29.    D. He*, S. Buyukdagli, and B. Hu, Origin of negative differential thermal resistance in a chain of two weakly coupled nonlinear lattices, Phys. Rev. B 80, 104302 (2009).
30.    D. He*, S. Buyukdagli, and B. Hu, Thermal conductivity of anharmonic lattices: Effective phonons and quantum corrections, Phys. Rev. E 78, 061103 (2008).
31.    B. Hu, D. He, L. Yang, and Y. Zhang, Asymmetric heat conduction through a weak link, Phys. Rev. E 74, 060101(R) (2006).
(* Presented as a corresponding author)

1.    "The tightest Landauer bound on energy consumption in finite-time information erasure process and its quantum coherence effect", Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12475039)
2.    "Delocalization and scattering effects of phonons in low-dimensional disordered lattices", Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (Grant No. 2021J01006)
3.    "Optimal energy consumption of quantum bit resetting and its multi-body quantum coherence effect", Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China (Grant No. 2025A1515010350)
4.    "Phonon transport and localization in one-dimensional nonlinear disorder lattices", Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12075199)
5.    "Microscopic mechanism for interfacial thermal resistance and temperature jump in low-dimensional systems", National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11675133)
6.    "On interfacial thermal resistance and temperature jump at nanoscale", Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (Grant No. 2016J01036)
7.    "Theoretical studies on interfacial thermal resistance of devices at micro-nano scale", President Grant from Xiamen University (Grant No. 20720160127)
8.    National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-ICTP, Grant No. 11291240478)
9.    "Microscopic mechanism for thermal-driving particle transport through carbon nanotube", National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11105112)
10.    "On energy transport and negative differential thermal resistance based on effective phonons", National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11047185)
11.    "Development and application of effective phonon theory", Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No.2010121009)

1. Thermal Physics (Undergraduate)
2. Seminar Course on Statistical Physics (Undergraduate)
3. Selected topics on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics (Graduate)
4. Seminar Course on Quantum Mechanics (Undergraduate)
5. Electromagnetism (Undergraduate, Peer Instruction)
6. Brownian Motion and Its Applications (Undergraduate)
7. College Physics A, B (Undergraduate, bilingual instruction)