Rate My Professor Hualing Zeng

Hualing Zeng is a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China in the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2006. He subsequently obtained an MPhil in Condensed Matter Physics in 2008 and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics in 2011 from the University of Hong Kong. Zeng completed postdoctoral research at the University of Hong Kong from 2011 to 2013 and served as a Research Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2013 to 2015 before joining USTC as a professor in 2015.

His research focuses on the electronic structure and exotic quantum states in low-dimensional materials, the optical and transport properties of novel two-dimensional semiconductors, and nano-optics. Representative publications include works on reliable wafer-scale integration of two-dimensional materials with van der Waals contacts in Nature Communications (2024), reversible flexoelectric domain engineering in van der Waals ferroelectrics in Nature Communications (2024), room-temperature ferroelectricity in 1T′-ReS₂ multilayers in Physical Review Letters (2022), and valley polarization in MoS₂ monolayers by optical pumping in Nature Nanotechnology (2012). Zeng’s contributions center on advancing understanding of two-dimensional materials and their applications in electronics and optoelectronics.