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Personal Statement
The continuous development of ultrashort pulsed high power lasers over the last 30 years has carved out new scientific frontiers, such as advanced table-top accelerators of charged particles, advanced laser fusion concepts, laboratory astrophysics, high field QED physics, and so on. In addition to academic interest, some of them are closely relevant to medical and industrial applications. For almost 30 years, I have worked on the fundamental physics of relativistic laser-plasma interactions and their applications in advanced particle accelerators and novel radiation sources, inertial confined fusion, high energy density physics, and laboratory astrophysics by theory and numerical simulations, etc. I have led a theory group and trained over 25 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the last 17 years, and established wide collaboration with groups from China, Japan, India, Germany, UK, and USA. I have coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed papers with H-index 52 (in google scholars: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=GBjZ0pYAAAAJ).
Research Interests
Relativistic laser-plasma interaction, laser-driven particle acceleration, novel radiation from terahertz to X and gamma-ray radiations, laser-driven high energy density physics (including laboratory astrophysics).
Expertise & Capabilities
- Physics of laser plasma interactions
- Laser plasma based particle acceleration and radiation
- Physics of inertial confined fusion
- Theory and numerical simulation
Teaching Interests
I am involved in teaching the course of "Laser driven plasma acceleration" both in the department of physics and SUPA and the 3rd year lab teaching.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Science, Theoretical studies of ultrashort intense laser-plasma interaction, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
Award Date: 1 Jan 1993
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Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2 2023-
McKenna, P., Hidding, B. & Sheng, Z.
STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/04/22 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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Cockcroft Phase 4
McKenna, P., Cross, A., Hidding, B., McNeil, B., Ronald, K. & Sheng, Z.
STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/04/21 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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Self-focusing, compression and collapse of ultrashort weakly-relativistic Laguerre Gaussian lasers in near-critical plasma
Wilson, T. C., Sheng, Z-M., McKenna, P. & Hidding, B., 7 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Physics Communications. 7, 3, 11 p., 035002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Luminous, relativistic, directional electron bunches from an intense laser driven grating plasma
Lad, A. D., Mishima, Y., Singh, P. K., Li, B., Adak, A., Chatterjee, G., Brijesh, P., Dalui, M., Inoue, M., Jha, J., Tata, S., Trivikram, M., Krishnamurthy, M., Chen, M., Sheng, Z. M., Tanaka, K. A., Kumar, G. R. & Habara, H., 7 Oct 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 1, 11 p., 16818 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Data for: "Theoretical and Computational Studies of the Weibel Instability in Several Beam-Plasma Interaction Configurations"
Davidson, C. (Creator), Sheng, Z. (Contributor), McKenna, P. (Contributor) & Wilson, T. (Contributor), University of Strathclyde, 22 Mar 2022
DOI: 10.15129/12a928e7-f652-4081-a3e9-d095f41506f2
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Data for: "Efficient generation of relativistic near-single-cycle mid-infrared pulses in plasmas"
Zhu, X. (Creator) & Sheng, Z. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 25 Mar 2020
DOI: 10.15129/20fcbd23-5959-4113-8b1c-ff728334cb06
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Prizes
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Fellow of American Physical Society
Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Recipient), Oct 2013
Prize: Election to learned society
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Fellow of Institute of Physics
Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Recipient), Oct 2015
Prize: Election to learned society
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Multistage coupling of laser wakefield accelerators
Zheng-Ming Sheng (Speaker)
17 Dec 2018 → 19 Dec 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Relativistic laser plasma for physics at extreme: from attosecond light sources to nonlinear QED physics
Zheng-Ming Sheng (Speaker)
5 Nov 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk