PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Research Fellow, The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 2019.10 - Now (Mentor: Prof. Dr. Feliciano Giustino)
• Postdoctoral Associate, Material Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA. 2018.8 - 2019.10 (Mentor: Prof. Dr. Bryan M. Wong)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, State Key Laboratory for Surface Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS), Beijing, 2015.6 - 2018.7 (Mentor: Prof. Dr. Sheng Meng)

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy, Condensed Matter Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 2015, (advisor: Prof. Dr. Jun Ni)
• Master of Science, Condensed Matter Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 2012 (advisor: Prof. Dr. Jun Ni)
• Bachelor of Science, Applied Physics, Yantai University, Yantai, July 2010

Research Int

First-Author Papers:

1. Chao Lian, Sheng-Jie Zhang, Shi-Qi Hu, Meng-Xue Guan, and Sheng Meng, “Ultrafast charge ordering by self-amplified exciton–phonon dynamics in TiSe2,” Nature Communications 11, 1–8 (2020).
2. C. Lian, Z. A. Ali, H. Kwon, and B. M. Wong, Indirect but efficient: Laser-excited electrons can drive ultrafast polarization switching in ferroelectric materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10, 3402 (2019) (arxiv).
3. C. Lian, S. B. Zhang, and S. Meng, Reply to “comment on “ab initio evidence for nonthermal characteristics in ultrafast laser melting””, Physical Review B 99, 066302 (2019)
4. C. Lian, Z. A. Ali, and B. M. Wong, Charge Density Wave Hampers Exciton Condensation in 1T-TiSe2,” Physical Review B 100, 205423 (2019) (arxiv:1901.11223).
5. M.-X. Guan*, C. Lian*, S.-Q. Hu, H. Liu, S.-J. Zhang, J. Zhang, and S. Meng, Cooperative evolution of intraband and interband excitations for high harmonic generation in strained MoS2, Physical Review B 99, 184306 (arxiv).
6. C. Lian, S. B. Zhang, and S. Meng, Ultrafast carrier relaxation and its Pauli drag in photo-enhanced melting of solids, arxiv:1901.00609 (2019).
7. C. Lian, S.-J. Zhang, S.-Q. Hu, M.-X. Guan, and S. Meng, Illustrating the nature of ultrafast charge density wave dynamics in TiSe2: Interplay of exciton and electron-phonon coupling, arxiv:1901.00610 (2019).
8. C. Lian, S.-Q. Hu, M.-X. Guan, and S. Meng, Momentum-resolved TDDFT algorithm in atomic basis for real time tracking of electronic excitation, The Journal of Chemical Physics 149, 154104 (2018) (arxiv).
9. J. Zhang*, C. Lian*, M. Guan*, W. Ma, H. Fu, and S. Meng, Photoexcitation Induced Quantum Dynamics ofC harge Density Wave and emergence of a collective mode in 1t-TaS2 , arxiv:1809.05012 (2018).
10. C. Lian*, S.-Q. Hu*, J. Zhang, C. Cheng, Z. Yuan, S. Gao, and S. Meng, Exotic surface plasmons in monolayer metal borophene, arxiv:1803.01604 (2018).
11. C. Lian and S. Meng, Dirac cone pairs in silicene induced by interface Si-Ag hybridization: A first-principles effective band study, Physical Review B 95, 245409 (2017) (arxiv).
12. J. Zhang*, H. Hong*, C. Lian*, W. Ma, X. Xu, X. Zhou, H. Fu, K. Liu, and S. Meng, Interlayer-state-coupling dependent ultrafast charge transfer in MoS2 /WS2 Bilayers, Advanced Science 4, 1700086 (2017).
13. C. Lian, S. B. Zhang, and S. Meng, Ab initio evidence for nonthermal characteristics in ultrafast laser melting, Physical Review B 94, 184310 (2016) (arxiv).
14. C. Lian and J. Ni, The effects of thermal and electric fields on the electronic structures of silicene, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17, 13366 (2015).
15. C. Lian, Z. Yang, and J. Ni, Strain modulated electronic properties of silicon nanoribbons with armchair edges, Chemical Physics Letters 561-562, 77 (2013).
16. C. Lian and J. Ni, Strain induced phase transitions in silicene bilayers: a first principles and tight-binding study, AIP Advances 3, 052102 (2013).
17. C. Lian and J. Ni, The structural and electronic properties of silicon nanoribbons on Ag(110): A first principles study, Physica B: Condensed Matter 407, 4695 (2012)