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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.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
Award Date: 1 Jan 1993
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Projects
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Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Dickson, Alex
Hidding, B., Sheng, Z. & Dickson, A.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/20 → 1/04/24
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated
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Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2
STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/10/20 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
Research output
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Frequency blue shift of terahertz radiation from femtosecond laser induced air plasmas
Zhang, Z., Chen, Y., Zhang, Z., Xia, T., Zhang, J. & Sheng, Z., 8 Jan 2021, In: Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics. 127, 5 p., 11.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Betatron radiation polarization control by using an off-axis ionization injection in a laser wakefield acceleration
Zhang, G., Chen, M., Yang, X., Liu, F., Weng, S., Ma, Y., Zou, D., Yu, T., Shao, F. & Sheng, Z., 22 Sep 2020, In: Optics Express. 28, 20, p. 29927-29936 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)2 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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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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Data for: "Control of laser light by a plasma immersed in a tunable strong magnetic field"
Zheng, X. (Creator), Weng, S. (Creator), McKenna, P. (Creator) & Sheng, Z. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 6 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.15129/575a9712-d9db-4635-8e85-550460d5f879
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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
Activities
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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