1997年毕业于北京大学物理系，获理学学士学位。2004年在美国加州大学伯克利分校获得物理学博士学位。2005年到2010年在橡树岭国家实验室和范德比尔特大学担任博士后和研究助理教授，期间于2010年在加州大学伯克利分校R. Ramesh教授领导的研究小组合作访问。2011年起在斯坦福大学任研究科学家。2012年加入beat365中文版官方网站物理系。

复杂氧化物:

1. Weidong Luo, Alberto Franceschetti, Maria Varela, Jing Tao, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides, “Orbital-occupancy versus charge ordering and the strength of electron correlations in electron-doped CaMnO₃”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036402 (2007).

2. Weidong Luo, Peihong Zhang, and Marvin L. Cohen, “Splitting of zone-center phonon in MnO and NiO”, Solid State Communications 142, 504 (2007).

3. Weidong Luo, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides, “Magnetic “dead” layer at a complex oxide interface”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 247204 (2008).

4. Weidong Luo, Maria Varela, Jing Tao, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides, “Electronic and crystal-field effects in the fine structure of electron energy－loss spectra of manganites”, Phys. Rev. B 79, 052405 (2009).

5. Matthew F. Chisholm, Weidong Luo, Mark P. Oxley, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Ho Nyung Lee, “Atomic-Scale Compensation Phenomena at Polar Interfaces”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197602 (2010).

6. Jaume Gazquez, Weidong Luo, Mark P. Oxley, Micah Prange, Maria A. Torija, Manish Sharma, Christopher Leighton, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Maria Varela, “Atomic-resolution imaging of spin-state superlattices in nanopockets within cobaltite thin films”, Nano Lett. 11, 973 (2011).

7. J. X. Zhang Q. He, M. Trassin, W. Luo, D. Yi, M. D. Rossell, P. Yu, L. You, C. H. Wang, C. Y. Kuo, J. T. Heron, Z. Hu, R. J. Zeches, H. J. Lin, A. Tanaka, C. T. Chen, L. H. Tjeng, Y.-H. Chu, and R. Ramesh, “Microscopic origin of the giant ferroelectric polarization in tetragonal-like BiFeO3”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 147602 (2011).

8. J. Seidel, W. Luo, S. J. Suresha, P.-K. Nguyen, A. S. Lee, S.-Y. Kim, C.-H. Yang, S. J. Pennycook, S. T. Pantelides, J. F. Scott, and R. Ramesh, “Prominent electrochromism through vacancy-order melting in a complex oxide”, Nature Communications 3, 799 (2012).

9. P. Yu, W. Luo, D. Yi, J. X. Zhang, M. D. Rossell, C.-H. Yang, L. You, G. Singh-Bhalla, S. Y. Yang, Q. He, Q. M. Ramasse, R. Erni, S. Salahuddin, L. W. Martin, Y. H. Chu, S. T. Pantelides, S. J. Pennycook, and R. Ramesh, “Interface control of bulk ferroelectric polarization”, PNAS 109， 9710 (2012).

纳米结构：

1. Weidong Luo, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides, “s-electron ferromagnetism in gold and silver nanoclusters”, Nano Lett. 7, 3134 (2007).

2. De-en Jiang, Murilo L. Tiago, Weidong Luo, and Sheng Dai, “The “staple” motif: a key to stability of thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 2777 (2008).

3. Sang Ho Oh, Matthew F. Chisholm, Yaron Kauffmann, Wayne D. Kaplan, Weidong Luo, Manfred Ruhle, and Christina Scheu, “Oscillatory Mass Transport in Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Sapphire Nanowires”, Science 330, 489 (2010).

拓扑绝缘体：

1. Weidong Luo, Xiao-Liang Qi, “Massive Dirac surface states in topological insulator/magnetic insulator heterostructures”，arXiv: 1208.4638 (2012).