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Curriculum Vitae: Sheng Meng


Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Email: smeng@iphy.ac.cn
8 South 3rd st., Zhongguancun, Beijing, 100190 China Tel:+86 10 82649396
Born: December, 1981 (Anhui, China) Fax: +86 10 82649228
Education
2004 Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden
2004 Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2000 B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

Employment Professor of Physics Aug. 2009-present


Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Research Associate Oct. 2006-Jul. 2009
Physics Department, Harvard University (with Efhimios Kaxiras)
Post-doctoral Fellow and Visiting Scientist Jan. 2005-Sep. 2006
Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Visiting scientist: Oak Ridge National Lab (with Zhenyu Zhang)
Research Assistant Jun. 2002- Sep. 2004
Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Sep. 2000 -Mar. 2004
Major: Condensed Matter Physics (with E. G. Wang & Shiwu Gao)
Scientific Collaborator Jan. 2010-Dec. 2010
Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Awards 2010 WMRIF Young Scientist Prize for Excellent Presentation, Berlin
2009 Harvard University Post-doctoral Travel Award, Boston
2005 NSF Fellowship at IPAM, University of California, Los Angeles
2002 Director’s Prize for Academic Outstanding, Institute of Physics, CAS
2001 Academic Excellence Award, Graduate School of CAS
2000 Merit of Excellence for the thesis, USTC
Title: “Tunnelling Properties of Metal-Insulator-Metal Junctions”
1999 University Merit of Excellent Youth
1998 University Wen-Chang Scholarship
1997 University Scholarship for Academic Excellence
1996 University Scholarship for Excellent Freshman
1994 “Three Merits Student” of the City
Services 2012 Instructor, Int’l Supercomputing Conference (ISC’12) student cluster competition, Beijing
2011-2012 Instructor, Magic Physics, No. 1 Primary School, Zhongguancun, Beijing
2011-2014 Chair, Academic Committee for Young Scientists, IOP-CAS
2011 Judge, IET Present Around the World Competition, Beijing
2011 Session Chair, ACCMS-6 Conference, Singapore
2011 Session Chair, Autumn Meeting, Chinese Physics Society, Hangzhou
2008 Session Chair, March Meeting, American Physics Society, New Orleans

Professional American Physical Society, American Chemistry Society, Materials Research Society, American
Membership Biophysical Society, Sigma Xi

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Research Excited state electron dynamics in condensed matters (2009-)


Energy conversion mechanism for sustainable society (2009-)
Electronic interaction between biomolecules and nanomaterials (2006-2008)
Molecular structure of melanin, and flavonoids (2006-2008)
First-principles study of water at surfaces and interfaces (2001-2005)
Solid-state electrode materials for lithium ion battery (Nov. 2001-2003)
Quantum mechanics in biology (May-June 2001)
Characterization of metal-oxide-metal tunnelling junctions (Mar.-Aug. 2000)
Funding MOST (USD $1,140,000) 2012-2017
CAS (USD $450,000) 2010-2014
NSFC (USD $59,000) 2011-2014
NSF, DOE, Harvard University Center for the Environment (USD $30,000)
Involved in 8 proposals writing to DOE, NSF, SV, NSFC
Teaching “Analysis with Scanning Probe Microscopy”, IOP-CAS, 2011 Spring
“Advanced Topics in Frontiers of Nanoscience”, GUCAS, 2010 Summer
“Introduction to Quantum Theory of Solids”, EPFL, Lausanne, 2010 Spring
Supervising 6+ Ph.D. students; supervised undergraduates (3); helped supervise
undergraduates (1); graduates (5); post-doc (1)
Reviewer Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Letters, Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, Phys. Rev.,
J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem., Solid State Commu., New. J. Phys.
Team research project, Fonds de recherché, Quebec, Canada
Hobbies Enjoy mountain climbing, badminton, swimming, reading and writing.
Won first prize in University’s “Huangyuan Poem Competition” (1999).
Won second prize in University’s “Huangyuan Poem Competition” (1998).

Published 50+ journal articles; delivered 30+ invited talks at international conferences and universities.

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