Prof. Shengyong Xu

Professor S. Y. Xu obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1999 from Department of Physics, National University of Singapore. He worked at the “Center for Superconducting & Magnetic Materials”, the National University of Singapore as a Research Fellow in 1999-2001, at Physics Department, Pennsylvania State University as a postdoctoral researcher in 2001-2003, and then at the “Center for Nanoscale Science”, Pennsylvania State University as a Research Associate in 2003-2006. Since 2006 he has been working at the Department of Electronics, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University. His team is interested in the underlying physics of electrical communication in biosystems, including generation of soliton-like electromagnetic (EM) pulses at various ion channels, propagation of EM pulses in axons and among cells along with soft-material EM waveguide network, data in memory, working mechanisms of the human brain, and brain-computer-interface, etc. His group also works on time-resolved 2D mapping of local temperature distribution at the micro- and nano-scales, e.g., of a single live cells.