Faculty

Jung-Tsung Shen  [ contact information ]

— PhD Physics, MIT 2003
— Post-doctoral researcher, Stanford, 2003—2007
— Physical science research associate, Stanford, 2007—2009
— Assistant professor, ESE, Washington University in St. Louis, September 2009 — present

I joined Washington University in September, 2009.

I received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003, under supervision of Professor Patrick Lee of MIT, and Dr. Phil Platzman of Bell Laboratories. I have also spent two years carrying out research at Bell Labs, as a graduate scholar. My graduate research work was mainly on

  • electron-hole plasma in semiconductors,
  • excitons in low-dimensional systems,
  • electromagnetic waves scattering, as well as
  • meta-materials, in particular perfect lens.

My post-doctoral research was done in Prof. Shanhui Fan's nano-photonic group. My research in this period shifted towards other new and exciting emerging fields and focused on photon transport in nano-structures, meta-materials, and thermal radiation and energy transfer in small structures.

In the first year of my graduate study, I also translated the book "Was Einstein Right? Putting general relativity to the test" by Prof. Clifford M. Will from English into Chinese.

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
— Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)

Graduate Students

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Undergraduate Students

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