Professor Zhou Ming obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Jiangsu University in 1996, and his Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jiangsu University in 2003. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

He currently serves as the Dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, and the Director of the Tsinghua University Tianjin Research Institute for Advanced Equipment. His research focuses on the physical formation mechanisms of low-dimensional functional materials, including borophene, graphene, functional quantum dots and related devices.

He has successively led the completion of over 30 major national research projects, including those under the National 973 Program, 863 Program, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Programs, and major provincial/ministerial industrialization projects. His research has achieved substantial progress in new-energy thermal power equipment, artificial/bio-molecular integrated devices, laser fabrication of self-cleaning and drag-reduction materials for high-speed electrified railway tracks, and laser micro/nano fabrication technologies for LEDs and thin-film photovoltaic cells.

Professor Zhou was an expert for the formulation of China’s mechanical engineering development strategies under the 11th, 12th and 13th Five-Year Plans. He is also a member of the drafting committee for the Roadmap for Mechanical Engineering Development toward 2030 initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (chief editor: Academician Lu Yongxiang, former President of CAS).

He has received four national and provincial/ministerial science and technology awards. He has published over 80 papers in high-impact journals including Nature Communications, Chemistry of Materials, Langmuir, Soft Matter, Nano, and Applied Physics A, with more than 1,800 non-self SCI citations. He has filed 35 national invention patents, among which 28 have been granted.