About me

Mohan Chen (陈默涵)


Assistant Professor


Center for Applied Physics and Technology,

College of Engineering,

Peking University


Email: mohanchen@pku.edu.cn

Last update of webpage: May 10, 2020

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018.11- : Assistant Professor, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, College of Engineering, Peking University, China

2018.05 - 2018.11: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Temple University, USA

2016.05 - 2018.05: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Temple University, USA (Prof. Xifan Wu)

2015.07 – 2016.05: Associate Research Scholar, MAE, Princeton University, USA (Prof. Emily A. Carter)

2012.07 – 2015.07: Postdoctoral Research Associate, MAE, Princeton University, USA (Prof. Emily A. Carter)

EDUCATION

2007.09 – 2012.07: Ph.D. Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, China (Prof. Lixin He)

2011.08 – 2011.12: Visiting Scholar, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA (Dr. Lin-Wang Wang)

2003.09 – 2007.09: B.A. Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT); orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT); linear-scaling algorithms; deep potential molecular dynamics; molecular dynamics; liquid water; water ions; liquid metals; plasma-facing components

JOURNAL REVIEWERS

Physical Review Letter; Physical Review B; Physical Review A; Nanoscale; Acta Materials; Nonoscale; Computational Physics Communications; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter; Nanotechnology; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys; Journal of Nuclear Materials; Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements; Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Computation; Molecules;

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Teaching assistant for the course “First-principles methods and their applications in condensed matter physics”. PH75204, University of Science and Technology of China, 2008 and 2010

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

C/C++, FORTRAN, Python, MPI

USED SOFTWARE

ABACUS, PROFESS, VASP, Quantum-Espresso, ABINIT, LAMMPS, SIESTA, PEtot, DeePMD-kit, LS3DF, OPIUM

OTHER WEBSITES

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