Cheng Chin 金 政 Election Year 2024 929 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Tel: 1-773-702-7192
Current Positions
Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck institute and Enrico Fermi institute, University of Chicago
Education
1990-1993 B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University
1995-2001 Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University (Advisor: Steven Chu)
2001-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Department, Stanford University
Professional Experience
2003 Visiting Professor, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universtät Innsbruck, Austria
2003-2005 Visiting Scientist, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universtät Innsbruck, Austria
2005 Visiting Professor, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
2005-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck institute, University of Chicago
2009-2012 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck institute, U. of Chicago
2012 Chair, American Physical Society Midwest Prairie Section
2013- Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck institute, Enrico Fermi institute, U. of Chicago
2013 Visiting Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, Rice University; Visiting Scientist, Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT; Visiting Scientist, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan
2014 Visiting Professor, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2014, 2015 Visiting Professor, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany; Guest Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany; Visiting Professor, Universität München, Munich, Germany
2015 JILA Visiting Fellow, JILA
2018-2020 Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, China
2019-2022 Honorary Chair Professor, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
2021-2022 President, International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers
Specialties
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Awards and Honors
2003-2005 Lise-Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Austrian Science Fund
2006-2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2006 Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Overseas Chinese Physics Association
2006-2012 The David and Lucile Packard Fellow
2008-2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award
2008 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
2009 Materials Computation Center Travel Award
2011 I. I. Rabi Prize, American Physics Society
2013-2015 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
2014 American Physical Society Fellow
2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2014 Distinguished Alumni Award, Physics Department, National Taiwan University
2017 International Bose-Einstein Condensation Award
2021 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award, University of Chicago