Faculty
Liang Guo received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, from Tsinghua University in 2009. He conducted graduate research on nanoscale heat transfer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. His projects included heat transfer across metal-dielectric interfaces, wavelength tuning effect in time-domain thermoreflectance for measuring thermal properties, and phonon dynamics in thermoelectric materials. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in September 2014. From October 2014 to July 2017, as a postdoctoral researcher, he utilized femtosecond two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) to study energy transfer in novel two-dimensional semiconductors in chemistry, University of California, Berkeley.
He joined the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology in January 2018. He is focusing on energy transfer in micro- and nano-scale, femtosecond laser manufacture, and energetic particle dynamics based on ultrafast spectroscopy. His project was exciton dynamics in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). He published more than 40 SCI-listed articles in world-renowned journals, including Nature Physics, Science Advances, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, ACS Photonics, Journal of Heat Transfer-Transactions of the ASME, etc. He manages 2 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 grant from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, 2 grants from the Characteristic Innovation Project of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province, 1 grant from University Consistent Support Program of Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation, 1 grant from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 grant from the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program, and he also receives (Level C) high-caliber personnel financial support from Shenzhen Science and Technology Program. He teaches "Fundamentals of Energy Engineering " and "Advanced Laser Processing and Inspection Technology", and won the first prize in the teaching competition for young teachers of South University of Science and Technology.
Research Interest：
◆ Nanoscale energy conversion and transfer
◆ Laser-matter interaction
◆ Femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy
◆ Micro- and nanoscale manufacture by laser
Education and Working Experience：
◆ 2023.06-present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
◆ 2018.01-2023.05, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
◆ 2014.10-2017.12, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
◆ 2009.08-2014.12, Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
◆ 2005.09-2009.07, B. S., Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Honors and Awards：
◆ 2023, The First Prize in the 7th Teaching Competition of SUSTech
◆ 2023, 2021, 2019, Excellent Undergraduate Advisor in Zhixin Residential College, SUSTech
◆ 2019, Industrial Development and Innovation Talent Award of Shenzhen
◆ 2018, High-level Talent in Nanshan District of Shenzhen
◆ 2018, Overseas High-Caliber Personnel of Shenzhen
◆ 2010, Ross Fellowship at Purdue University
◆ 2009, The Prize of Excellent Graduation Thesis of Tsinghua University
◆ 2009, The Honor of Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University
Representative Publications：
Guo L., Wu M., Cao T., Monahan, D. M., Lee Y. H., Louie S. G.*, & Fleming G. R.*, Exchange-driven intravalley mixing of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Nature Physics, 2019, 15, 228-232. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0362-y
2. Guo L., Chen C. A., Zhang Z., Monahan D. M., Lee Y. H., & Fleming G. R.*, Lineshape characterization of excitons in monolayer WS2 by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, Nanoscale Advances, 2020, 2, 2333-2338. http://doi.org/10.1039/D0NA00240B
3. Li L., Guo X., Ding P., Peng Z., Chen X., Li Y., Nielsen M. P.*, & Guo L.*, Ultrafast all-optical switching in the visible spectrum with 6h silicon carbide, ACS Photonics, 2021, 8 (10), 2940-2946. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00605
4. Ji Y., Liao Y., Li H., Cai Y., Fan D., Liu Q., Huang S., Zhu R., Wang S., Wang H.*, & Guo L*., Flexible metal electrodes by femtosecond laser-activated deposition for human-machine Interfaces, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14 (9), 11971-11980. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c00419
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Other Information：◆The group welcomes postdoctoral researchers and research assistants. We also actively recruit PhDs, masters, and undergraduates with intense research interests.
◆The research in this group is interdisciplinary and we are open to students and scholars with interest in mechanical engineering (including energy engineering, thermal engineering, and precision instruments), optics, and material chemistry.