Dr. Fanchen Meng who is guided by research scientist Wu Li from IAS and Prof. Jian He from Clemson University, was awarded 2018 ITS Summer Fellowship for his study on theoretical calculation of thermoelectric materials. ITS Summer Fellowship has been set up since 2016 to support a doctoral student's summer visit annually, with a total amount of $5,000.    

Prof. Jian He graduated from the University of Tennessee and served as assistant professor at the Department of Physics of Clemson University (2008-2014). In 2014, he was awarded Tenured Associate. His publications include 145 papers and 5 book chapters with a total citation of over 3,000 times. Prof. He focuses on thermoelectric materials, superconducting materials, material preparation of low-dimensional materials (single crystal polycrystalline nanocrystals) and measurement of thermoelectric, electrical and magnetic properties. Research scientist Wu Li graduated from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a Ph.D. degree in 2011. During his PhD, he studied in TU Dresden, Germany for two years with a CAS-MPG joint PhD fellowship. He had his postdoctoral research at Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France (2011-2013) and Scientific Computing & Modelling NV, Netherlands as a Marie Curie fellow (2013-2015). After that he returned to CEA as a researcher in 2015. Dr. Li is mainly engaged in theoretical studies on materials' transport properties. He is the primary developer of the open-source software ShengBTE for scientific computation. He has published over 30 papers in journals with a total citation of over 2,000 times.