Cong Su, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Applied Physics, Yale University
Email: cong.su at yale.edu
Office at Yale main campus: Becton 201
Office at Yale West Campus: Bldg. 810, Room A135
Employment
Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Assistant Professor, Applied Physics (by courtesy)
Jul. 2022 - Jun. 2023
Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA)
Visiting Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2023
University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboraroty (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Heising-Simons Junior Fellow (Kavli Fellow), Kavli ENSI & Department of Physics
Supervisor: Prof. Alex Zettl
Jun. 2018 - Aug. 2018
Nion Company (Kirkland, WA, USA)
R&D internship in electron microscopy
Supervisor: Prof./Dr. Ondrej Krivanek (2020 Kavli Prize Laureate)
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Ph.D., Nuclear Science and Engineering
Advisors: Prof. Ju Li and Prof. Jing Kong
Sep. 2009 - Jun. 2013
Peking University (Beijing, China)
B.S. in physics, Yuanpei College
Advisor: Prof. Ji Feng
Honors and Awards
Del Favero Prize 2020
Heising-Simons Fellowship 2019
Student Spotlight in RLE, MIT 2019
Best image of the month, JEOL Imaging contest 2018
Best poster award nominee, MRS spring meeting 2017
Wellington and Irene Loh Fund Fellowship 2014
Member of Alpha Nu Sigma (US national honor society of nuclear science) 2014
Baosteel Scholarship 2012
Peking University Freshmen Scholarship 2009
Outstanding Student Leader, Beijing 2009
Soong Ching-Ling Scholarship 2006