Prof Mingliang Tian is vice-director of the Chinese Academy of Science’s High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Anhui province, China, where his group studies low-dimensional electronic systems and artificial nanostructures such as iron-based superconductors, bismuth nanowires and nanoribbons, as well as topological insulators and skyrmions. As a FLEET PI, Prof Tian and his group worked closely with FLEET CI Prof Lan Wang (RMIT) to study 2D magnetic materials, vdW ferromagnetic heterostructures and topological condensed matter systems.