Chao Lian
Professional Experience:
- Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. (October 2022 - August 2023)
- Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. (October 2019 - October 2022)
- Postdoctoral Associate Researcher, The University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA. (August 2018 - October 2019)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. (June 2015 - July 2018)
Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy, Condensed Matter Physics, Tsinghua University, July 2015
- Master of Science, Condensed Matter Physics, Tsinghua University, July 2012
- Bachelor of Science, Applied Physics, Yantai University, July 2010
Academic Merits:
- First-author publications: 16
- Total publications: 53
- Total citations: 1477
- H-index: 24 (Source: Google Scholar)
- Reviews: 85
Research Interests:
I am currently working on the development of time-dependent density functional methods and applying these methods to simulate ultrafast phenomena, including photo-induced phase transition, ultrafast spin dynamics, and excited-state electron-phonon coupling.
Representative Publications:
- C. Lian, S.-Q. Hu, J. Zhang, C. Cheng, Z. Yuan, S. Gao, and S. Meng, "Integrated Plasmonics: Broadband Dirac Plasmons in Borophene," Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116802 (2020).
- C. Lian, M. Guan, S. Hu, J. Zhang, and S. Meng, "Photoexcitation in Solids: First-Principles Quantum Simulations by Real-Time TDDFT," Adv. Theory Simul. 1, 1800055 (2018).
- 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," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10, 3402 (2019).
- C. Lian, S.-J. Zhang, S.-Q. Hu, M.-X. Guan, and S. Meng, "Ultrafast Charge Ordering by Self-Amplified Exciton–Phonon Dynamics in TiSe2," Nat Commun 11, 43 (2020).
- C. Lian, S. B. Zhang, and S. Meng, "Ab Initio Evidence for Nonthermal Characteristics in Ultrafast Laser Melting," Phys. Rev. B 94, 184310 (2016).
Email: chaolian@iphy.ac.cn
