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,[1] as well as the natural emergence of supersymmetry in topological superconductors.[2] She is a professor of physics at California State University, Northridge,[3] and is also affiliated with the Princeton Center for Complex Materials at Princeton University.[4]

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,[3] after working as a researcher in the Texas Center for High Temperature Superconductivity at the University of Houston since 1990.[5]

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.[6]

Recognition

In 2012, California State University, Northridge gave Sheng their Preeminent Scholarly Publications Award.[1] 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".[7]

References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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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