Biographical Sketch                                                                            

Professor Sheng received Ph.D. in Optics in 1993 from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was then a postdoc researcher an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow in the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany and later a JSPS research fellow and research associate in Institute of Laser Engineerig,Osaka University, Japan. He joined the Institute of Physics, CAS, in Beijing in 2001. He has been a distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2007. He published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including 39 in PRL, PNAS, Nat. Comm.) with ~6000 citations and H-index 40. He is a fellow of American Physical Society.

Selected Publications   

• A. Pukhov, Z. M. Sheng, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Particle acceleration in relativistic laser channels”, Phys. Plasmas 6, 2847-2854 (1999).
• Z. M. Sheng, Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, J. Zhang, W. Yu, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Angular distributions of fast electrons, ions, and bremsstrahlung x/gamma-rays in intense laser interaction with solid targets”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5340 (2000).
• Z. M. Sheng, K. Mima, Y. Sentoku, M. S. Jovanovic, T. Taguchi, J. Zhang, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Stochastic heating and acceleration of electrons in colliding laser fields in plasmas”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055004 (2002).
• Z. M. Sheng, K. Mima, J. Zhang, and H. Sanuki, “Emission of electromagnetic pulses from laser wakefields through linear mode conversion”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095003 (2005).
• F. Y. Li, Z. M. Sheng, Y. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, W. B. Mori, W. Lu, and J. Zhang, “Dense attosecond electron sheets from laser wakefields using an up-ramp density transition”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 135002 (2013).