2009年于上海理工大学光电学院取得光学学士学位；2010年于中国科学技术大学完成研究生课程，期间在微尺度物质科学国家实验室朱林繁教授电子能量损失谱学课题组访问学习；2012年于中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所取得光学硕士学位，师从强场激光物理国家重点实验室程亚研究员从事非线性光谱学研究；2017年于美国堪萨斯大学(The University of Kansas)物理与天文系取得物理学博士学位，师从赵辉教授(Prof. Hui Zhao)从事低维材料的超快光电子动力学研究; 2017年6月加入东南大学生物科学与医学工程学院，从事科研教学工作。
1.Qiannan Cui, Yuanyuan Li, Jianhua Chang, Hui Zhao and Chunxiang Xu, Temporally Resolving Synchronous Degenerate and Nondegenerate Two-Photon Absorption in 2D Semiconducting Monolayers, Laser & Photonics Reviews 13, 201800225 (2019 Front Cover). 2.Qiannan Cui, Rodrigo Muniz, John Sipe and Hui Zhao, Strong and Anisotropic Third Harmonic Generation in Monolayer and Bulk ReS2, Physical Review B 95, 165406 (2017). 3.Qiannan Cui and Hui Zhao, Coherent Control of Nanoscale Ballistic Currents in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide ReS2, ACS Nano 9, 3935-3941 (2015). 4.Qiannan Cui, Frank Ceballos, Nardeep Kumar and Hui Zhao, Transient Absorption Microscopy of Monolayer and Bulk WSe2, ACS Nano 8, 2970-2976 (2014). 5.Qiannan Cui, Jiaqi He, Matthew Z. Bellus, Mirzojamhed Mirzokarimov, Tino Hofmann, Hsin-Ying Chiu, Matthew Antonik, Dawei He, Yongsheng Wang and Hui Zhao,Transient Absorption Measurements on Anisotropic Monolayer ReS2, Small 11, 5565-5571 (2015). 6.Qiannan Cui, Alexey Lipatov, Jamie Wilt, Matthew Z. Bellus, Xiao-Cheng Zeng, Judy Wu, Alexander Sinitskii and Hui Zhao, Time-Resolved Measurements of Photocarrier Dynamics in TiS3 Nanoribbons, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 18334 (2016).
