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Principle Investigator

Liu Zheng

Zheng Liu

Dr. Zheng Liu received his B.S. degree (2005) at Nankai University, China. He completed his Ph.D at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST, China), working on the synthesis and energy harvest of carbon nanotubes.

He is currently full professor at NTU. His work now focuses on the following topics: 1) Synthesis and engineering of high-quality and large-size novel 2D monolayers such as graphene and TMDs; 2) Physical properties of 2D monolayers such as 2D superconductivity, 2D ferroelectricity, 2D ferromagnetism and 2D Wyle semi-metals; 3) Applications of 2D materials such as novel semiconducting electronics. He has published > 300 papers, including > 30 papers in Nature and Science serial journals, with total citations > 40,000 and H-index of 96 (Google Scholar, as of Feb 2022). He was the finalist of the World Technology Award in Energy category in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Singapore NRF Fellowship and the elite Nanyang Assistant Professorship. He was awarded ICON-2DMAT Young Scientist Award and the prestigious Singapore Young Scientist Award in 2018. He was a highly cited researcher from 2018 – 2021. He was named Materials Research Society of Singapore Chair Professorship in 2019.

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Bijun Tang

2021-now Posdoc School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2021 Ph.D. School of material science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2017 B.Eng. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Interest: CVD synthesis and characterization of novel 2D materials; materials development with machine learning

Research Fellow

Dr. Ya Deng

2017 Ph.D. National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2012 B.Sc. Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Research Interest: CVD synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of 2D materials

Dr. Yang Gao

2018 Postdoc University of Melbourne, Australia
2016 Ph.D. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
2009 B.S. Jilin University, Changchun, China
Research Interest: CVD growth, properties, and application of 2D materials

Dr. Ruihuan Duan

2017 Ph.D. Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, China
2012 B.Sc. Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China
Research Interest: Synthesis of Low dimensional materials

Dr. Qundong Fu

2019 Postdoc. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2018 Ph.D. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2013 B.Sc. Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Research Interest: Synthesis of high quality and large area 2D materials by CVD and their electronic application

Dr. Chao Zhu

2019 Ph.D. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2014 B.Sc. Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Research Interest: 2D electronic and optoelectronic devices

Dr. Zhonghan Zhang

2018 Ph.D. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2011 B.Sc. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Interest: Ab initio simulation, Molecular dynamics simulation, Machine learning

Dr. Lishu Wu

2021-now Posdoc School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2021 Ph.D. School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2015 B.Eng. Sichuan university, China
Research Interest: Raman spectroscopy of 2D magnets

Dr. Wei Ma

2021-now Posdoc School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2021 Ph.D. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang, China
2015 B. Sc. Hainan University, Haikou, China
Research Interest: CVD growth, characterization and application of 2D materials

Dr. Jing Lu

2022-now Posdoc Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019-2022 Ph.D. Beijing Normal University, China
2019 M.Eng. Beijing Normal University, China
2017 B.Eng. Nanjing Normal University, China
Research Interest: Synthesis and characterization of low dimensional magnetic/ferroelectric materials

Dr. Yujun Ke

2022-now Posdoc Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ph.D. Chinese Academy of Space Technology, China
M.Eng. Chinese Academy of Space Technology, China
B.Eng. Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Dr. Shasha Guo

2022-now Postdoc Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2018-2022 Ph.D. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2018 B.Eng. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Research Interest: Electrochemistry properties of 2D materials, the interaction between the single metal atom and 2D based materials

Dr. Zhendong Lei

2022-now Postdoc Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2017-2022 Ph.D. NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2017 B.Eng. Tsinghua University, China
Research Interest: Upconversion Materials; Nano materials

Dr. Yue Li

2023-now Postdoc Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2022 Ph.D. Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China
2017 B.S. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Research Interest: Flexible sensing electronics based on 2D materials

Graduate Students

Yanchao He

2019-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019 B.Eng. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Interest: Memristive devices based on 2D materials

Jiefu Yang

2019-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019 B.Eng. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Interest: Synthesis of novel 2D-TMDs. Magnetic properties of 2D materials. Electrocatalysis based on 2D materials

Xiuxian Zhou

2020-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019 B.Sc. Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Research Interest: Characterization and electrical, photoelectric and superconducting properties of 2D materials and devices

Ali Abdelaziem

2019-now Ph.D. candidate School of material science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2018 M.Sc. National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences (NILES), Cairo University, Egypt
2009 B.Sc. Faculty of Science, Physics Department, Fayoum University, Egypt
Research Interest: Ultrafast Terahertz (THz) Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials includes 2D materials, topological insulators, and other inorganic perovskites.

Kongyang Yi

2021-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019 M.Eng. Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2016 B.Eng. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Research Interest: Nano electronics, low-dimensional materials

Mengyao Cao

2021-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2020 B.Sci. Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Research Interest: 2D superconducting materials, van der Waals topological magnets and photonics applications based on phonon-polariton of 2D materials

Jiayu Shi

2021-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2021 Research Assistant Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2020 B.Sci. Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Research Interest: Low temperature transport measurement, Nano-electronics, Low dimensional materials

Tianyu Zhang

2023-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2023 M.Sc. National University of Singapore, Singapore
2021 B.Eng. Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China
Research Interest: Electrochemistry properties of 2D materials, Low dimensional materials

Yuqing Wang

2023-now Ph.D. candidate Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2023 M.Eng. Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
2020 B.Eng. Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Research Interest: CVD synthesis of 2D materials, photoelectrocatalysis

Visiting Scholars

Hanjun Jiang

2019-now Ph.D. candidate Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
2019 B.Sc. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Research Interest: CVD synthesis of novel 2D materials