Hostile policies drive brain drain from the United States

Xiaoxing Xi is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics at Temple University, AAAS Fellow and APS Fellow. Prior to joining Temple in 2009, he was a Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD degree in physics from Peking University and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, in 1987. After several years of research at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, Bell Communication Research/Rutgers University, and University of Maryland, he joined the Physics faculty at Penn State in 1995, and was named chairman of Temple University's physics department in 2014. In 2015, the FBI raided his home and arrested him at gunpoint in front of his wife and 2 daughters, charging him for sharing US company technology with China. All charges were subsequently dropped 4 months later. Since then, he has spoken out actively for open fundamental research and against racial profiling, for which he received the American Physical Society 2020 Andrei Sakharov Prize.