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Condensed matter physicist

Don-Ning "Donna" Sheng is a condensed matter physicist whose research involves two-dimensional systems including the fractional quantum Hall effect and quantum spin Hall effect, as well as the natural emergence of supersymmetry in topological superconductors. She is a professor of physics at California State University, Northridge, and is also affiliated with the Princeton Center for Complex Materials at Princeton University.

Education and career

Sheng earned a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a Ph.D. in 1989 from Nanjing University. She joined the faculty at California State University, Northridge in 2000, after working as a researcher in the Texas Center for High Temperature Superconductivity at the University of Houston since 1990.

At California State University, Northridge, more than half of the students are female, and in 2014 80% of the honors students from science and mathematics were female. As part of the university's system of encouragement for women in STEM fields, Sheng runs a support group for female physics majors.

Recognition

In 2012, California State University, Northridge gave Sheng their Preeminent Scholarly Publications Award. In 2013, she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for insights into topological and strongly correlated phases of matter using computational methods".

References

  1. ^ Glazer, Lauren (24 August 2012), "Faculty Applauded at Annual Awards Reception", CSUN Today, California State University, Northridge
  2. Cohen, Julie (9 April 2014), "One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally", The Current, University of California, Santa Barbara, retrieved 2021-03-11
  3. ^ "Sheng, Donna", Physics and Astronomy Faculty, California State University, Northridge, retrieved 2021-03-11
  4. "Dong-Ning (Donna) Sheng", People, Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University, retrieved 2021-03-11
  5. Institute for Materials Science Seminar announcement (PDF), Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2017, retrieved 2021-03-11
  6. "Women Dominate Science and Math at CSUN", SCV News, SCVTV, 18 August 2014, retrieved 2021-03-11
  7. "Fellows nominated in 2013 by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2021-03-11

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