WANG Chen Group @ SZU

Assistant Professor

Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Shenzhen University

WANG Chen (王晨) is an Assistant Professor in Institute for Advanced Study at the Shenzhen University (SZU). Before joining SZU, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Dr. Wang obtained his B.E. degree from China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUPB) in 2015 and his M.S. degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2017, both in Chemical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. degree (2021) in Mechanical Engineering from HKU under the supervision of Prof. Yue Chen.

Dr. Wang’s current research focuses on developing and implementing first-principles-based methods and machine-learning approaches to simulate the dynamics of phonons and electrons at the atomistic and electronic levels and their application to thermal energy conversion and management.

News

Dec 26, 2025	New grand on “National Postdoctoral Overseas Talent Recruitment Program (HWYC)” awarded by the Ministry of Education of China.
Sep 26, 2025	New grand on “Young Top‑notch Talent“ under the Guangdong Pearl River Talent Plan awarded by Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Bureau.
Aug 27, 2025	New grand on “Research on the Influence Mechanism of Disordered Phonon Scattering on Thermal Conductivity During the Crystalline-Amorphous Phase Transition in GST Alloys” awarded by NSFC.
Feb 05, 2025	New paper on “Positive Temperature-dependent Thermal Conductivity Induced by Wavelike Phonons in Complex Ag-based Argyrodites” published in Phys. Rev. B.
Dec 09, 2024	New paper on “Thermal switching across the ultrafast amorphous to crystalline transition in Sc_0.2Sb₂Te₃” published in Phys. Rev. B.
Dec 09, 2024	Joined the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Shenzhen University as an Assistant Professor.