Award Reason

Dr. Yonggang Li has performed extensive computational studies on the applications of Monte Carlo simulation method to electron microscopies and electron spectroscopies during his graduate course at the Laboratory for Microstructure of Solids, University of Science and Technology of China. Particularly, his work on the scanning electron microscopic imaging of rough surface was one of the most important cornerstones for the development of the international standard "Microbeam analysis - Scanning electron microscopy - Method for evaluating critical dimensions by CD-SEM" (ISO 21466).

Profile

Dr. Yonggang Li, currently is a professor and deputy director of the Department of Computational Physics and Quantum Materials, Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was born in Mar. 1982, earned his PhD degree in Prof. Zejun Ding's lab in the Physics Department, University of Science and Technology of China in 2009, joined ISSP in Aug. 2009, and was a visiting scholar in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2014. He is a member of the Committee of the Computational Materials Science Branch of Chinese Materials Research Society since 2016. His current research interests include multiscale computational methods, radiation effects in nuclear materials and irradiation failure of semiconductors.

Achievements

Dr. Yonggang Li has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, and been authorized 3 Chinese patents, 5 software copyrights and 1 open-source copyright. He was awarded as an outstanding member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. Dr. Shifeng Mao introduced the full-Penn algorithm into the Monte Carlo simulation physical model of electron-solid interaction, making the Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in materials free of parameters, during his graduate course at the Laboratory for Microstructure of Solids, University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Shifeng Mao, currently working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), was born in July 1984, started the undergraduate study in the Department of Physics at USTC in 2000, finished his BSc thesis in Prof. Zejun Ding's lab in Jun. 2004. He joined the Department of Physics at USTC in 2004 to work with Prof. Zejun Ding on developing the Monte Carlo simulation model for electron-solid interaction. He received his PhD in condensed matter physics in Dec. 2009, and continued his postdoctoral research until Sep. 2012. He late worked at School of Nuclear Science and Technology at USTC and extended the research interest to the plasma-surface interaction in the field of magnetic confined fusion. He is the young committee member of the Nuclear Industry Education Society of China, and the council member of Vacuum Society of Anhui Province.