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About me

Dr. Zhen Tong now works as an Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2014 and University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2019, respectively. His research areas are thermal sciences, material sciences, and energy conversion.

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Work

  • 2023.04 - present     Assistant Professor       Sun Yat-Sen University

  • 2020.04 - 2023.03   Postdoctoral Fellow      Computational Science and Applied Research Institute (CSAR)

Education

  • 2014 - 2019        Ph.D.                            Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

  • 2018 - 2019        Visiting Student           Purdue University

  • 2010 - 2014        B.S.                              Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Editoral service

  • Editorial board member, Computational Materials Science, Frontiers in Materials

  • Guest Editor, Frontiers in Materials, Special Issue: "Advances in Thermal and Electrical Transport in Low-Dimensional Materials with Defects", 2022.01-2022.08

  • Guest Editor, Crystals, Special Issue: "Advances in Electron–Phonon Interaction in Crystals", 2022.11-2023.05

Awards

  • Chinese Dragon Plan Talent of Longhua District in Shenzhen (Level B), 2021

  • Shenzhen Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (Level C, Peacock Plan), 2020

Scholarships and Honors

  • Graduate National Scholarship (top 1%), Ministry of Education of PRC, 2018

  • Visiting Student Scholarship, CSC (Chinese Scholarship Council), 2018

  • KoGuan Scholarship, SJTU, 2017

  • YuLiming Scholarship, SJTU, 2016

  • Covidien Scholarship, SJTU, 2014 & 2015

  • Best bachelor thesis of HUST, 2014

  • Excellent bachelor thesis of Hubei Province, 2014

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