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Zhenglu Li received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 2012 and completed his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2019. After his doctoral studies, he became a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley from 2019 to 2022. In 2023, he joined the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Li's research focuses on the development and application of massively-parallelized computational methods based on many-body quantum theories to study excited-state properties of materials, including bulk solids and two-dimensional systems. His group emphasizes the development of first-principles approaches such as GW perturbation theory and the time-dependent GW method, and they explore broad applications in quantum materials while providing accurate many-electron-level descriptions of important phenomena such as electron-phonon coupling, superconductivity, nonequilibrium exciton dynamics, and light-matter interactions. Dr. Li is particularly interested in the role of electron-phonon coupling in materials with strong electron correlations and the nonequilibrium dynamics of excitons and phonons in low-dimensional materials.
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science • Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Professor at the Mork Family Department focusing on computational methods in physics.
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