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Zhengming Sheng/ Distinguished Professor
Astronomy and Astrophysics Division
Room 301, Building 5, Minhang zmsheng AT sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

  • 1995- 1995, Shanghai Institute of Optical and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Doctor

Work Experience

  • 2007-Now, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Distinguished Professor
  • 2001-2007, Institute of Physics, CAS, Research Fellow
  • 1998-2001, Osaka University, Japan, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 1995-1998, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany, Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

  • Relativistic laser-plasma based particle accelerators and radiation production
  • Laser-driven high energy density physics and laboratory astrophysics
  • High field physics driven by extreme intense lasers in the QED regime

Honorary Distinctions

  • 2004, Recipient of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
  • 2006, Second Class National Natural Science Award
  • 2007, Outstanding Achievement Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • 2007, Rao Yutai Prize in Chinese Physics Society
  • 2016, The Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize), International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA)
  • 2018, First Class Natural Science Award of Shanghai Municipal Government

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • A. Pukhov, Z. M. Sheng, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Particle acceleration in relativistic laser channels”, Phys. Plasmas 6, 2847-2854 (1999).
  • Z.-M. Sheng, Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, J. Zhang, W. Yu, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Angular distributions of fast electrons, ions, and bremsstrahlung x/gamma-rays in intense laser interaction with solid targets”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5340 (2000).
  • Z. M. Sheng, K. Mima, Y. Sentoku, M. S. Jovanovic, T. Taguchi, J. Zhang, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Stochastic heating and acceleration of electrons in colliding laser fields in plasmas”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055004 (2002).
  • Z. M. Sheng, K. Mima, J. Zhang, and H. Sanuki, “Emission of electromagnetic pulses from laser wakefields through linear mode conversion”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095003 (2005).
  • F. Y. Li, Z. M. Sheng, Y. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, W. B. Mori, W. Lu, and J. Zhang, “Dense attosecond electron sheets from laser wakefields using an up-ramp density transition”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 135002 (2013).