● September 2005 - July 2010, Ph. D. in nuclear science and technology, Tsinghua University

● September 2001 - July 2005, B. S. in engineering physics, Tsinghua University

● September 2022 - present, Associate Professor at Department of engineering physics, Tsinghua University.

● December 2011-July 2013, Post-doctoral Fellow at Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

● July 2010 - August 2022, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor at Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

● Fundamentals of Plasma Physics (for undergraduate students)

● Introduction to Fusion Energy (for graduate students)

● Introduction to Plasma Physics (for graduate students)

● High-temperature Plasma Physics (for graduate students)

● Diagnostic Methods for High-Temperature Plasmas (for graduate students)

Plasma physics and magnetic confinement fusion, focusing on operational limits and MHD instabilities, plasma disruptions and runaway electrons in both tokamak and spherical tokamak geometries.

● 2025-2029, Improvement and sustainment of plasma confinement in the hybrid scenario, National Special Project for Magnetic Confinement Fusion Energy Research

● 2024-2028, Understanding of whistler wave driven by runaway electrons in tokamak plasmas, National Natural Science Foundation of China

● 2018-2022, Physical understanding in the long-pulse steady-state scenario, National Key Research and Development Program of China

● 2018-2021, Runaway electron in the ultra-low electron density plasmas on the EAST tokamak, National Natural Science Foundation of China

● 2015-2018, Investigation of runaway electron loss during the tokamak disruption, National Natural Science Foundation of China

● 2012-2014, Tokamak equilibrium reconstruction using Faraday rotation measurements, National Natural Science Foundation of China

[1] Observation of multiple beta-induced Alfvén eigenmodes driven by runaway electrons in EAST Ohmic discharge, Luo C.X., Zeng L., Bao J., Zhu X., Tang T., Ma R.R., Lin S.Y., Shi T.H., Qian J.P., Liu H.Q., Qiu Z.Y., Liang Y.F. and Gao X., NUCLEAR FUSION, 65 (2025) 076020

[2] Study of runaway electrons during EAST plasma start-up, Hong Y., Zeng L., Tang T., Chen D.L., Lin S.Y., Zhao H.L., Zhou T.F., Ti A., Lou C.X., Xia W., Liu H.Q., Qian J.P. and Gao X., FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, 219 (2025) 11523

[3] Development of plasma burn-through simulation code and validation in SUNIST-2 and EAST, Li X., Song Z., Wei Y., Chen R., Liu W., Cheng Z., Qian J., Tan Y., Zeng L. and Gao Z., NUCLEAR FUSION, 65 (2025) 066017

[4] Interpretive JOREK simulation of thermal quench triggered by massive gas injection in EAST disruptions, Xia W., Hu D., Zeng L., Tang T., Zhu X., Shi T.H., Chen D.L., Xu H.K.R., Geng K.N., Yang J.J., Zhao S.B., Mao S.T., Duan Y.M., Zhuang H.D., Huang Y., Liu H.Q., Zhang T., Ti A., Xu L.Q., Wang L., Zang Q., Gao X., Li G.Q. and the JOREK Team, NUCLEAR FUSION, 65 (2025) 056028

[5] Toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes excited by energetic electrons in EAST low-density ohmic plasmas, Zhu X., Qiu Z., Bao J., Zhang T., Liu H., Luo C., Tang T., Shi T., Chen D., Qian J., Lin X., Gao X., Gong X., Lin S. and Zeng L., NUCLEAR FUSION, 64 (2024) 126023

[6] Bursting core-localized ellipticity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes driven by energetic electrons during EAST ohmic discharges, Su P., Lan H., Zhou C., Bao J., Liu A., Zhu X., Wu M., Luo C., Han J., Wang J., Liu H., Zhang T., Zhou R., Lin S., Zhao H., Sun Y., Qiu Z., Chu N., Tang T., Tan Y., Zeng L. and Gao Z., NUCLEAR FUSION, 64 (2024) 036019

[7] Study of Runaway Electron Dynamics in EAST Helium Plasmas, Luo C., Zeng L., Zhu X., Tang T., Qiu Z., Lin S., Zhang T., Liu H., Shi T., Zhang B., Ding R., Gao W., Wang M., Gao W., Ti A., Zhao H., Zhou T., Qian J., Sun Y., Lv B., Zang Q., Jie Y., Liang Y. and Gao X., CHINESE PHYSICS B, 32 (2023) 075209

[8] Observation of electrostatic fluctuations driven by runaway electrons in EAST disruption, Tang T., Zeng L., Qiu Z., Lin S., Sun Y., Wei G., Zhu X., Chen D., Huang Y., Duan Y., Xu L., Zhuang H., Liu H., Qian J., Luo C., Ti A., Zhao H., Jie Y., Liang Y. and Gao X., NUCLEAR FUSION, 63 (2023) 066034

[9] Timescale of thermal quench during disruptions in EAST, Xia W., Zeng L., Tang T., Chen D., Duan Y., Zhu X., Ti A., Shi T., Xu L., Huang Y. and Gao X., PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION, 2023, 65 (2023) 085011

[10] Coherent mode induced by supersonic molecular beam injection in EAST Ohmic plasmas, Liu W., Geng K., Zeng L., Xiao W., Ye K., Zhang T., Cao B., Zhu X., Tang T., Liu H., Ti A., Zhao H., Gao Z., Tan Y., Zhou C., Liu A., Wu M., Hao B., Li H., Li G. and Gao X., PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION, 65 (2023) 055002

[11] Nonlinear mode couplings between geodesic acoustic mode and toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes in the EAST tokamak, Zhu X., Zeng L., Qiu Z., Lin S., Zhang T., Bao J., Hu Y., Tang T., Liu H., Kong D., Wang Y., Shi T., Hao B., Qian J., Zang Q., Lyu B., Wu M., Li H., Jie Y., Gao X. and Lin X., PHYSICS OF PLASMAS, 29 (2022) 062504

[12] Runaway electron generation and loss in EAST disruptions, Tang T., Zeng L., Chen D., Sun Y., Zhao H., Zhou T., Ti A., Lin S., Zhou R., Zhu X., Qian J., Liu H., Jie Y., Liang Y. and Gao X., NUCLEAR FUSION, 61 (2021) 076003

[13] Observation of two threshold fields for runaway-electron generation in tokamaks, Zhu X., Zeng L., Liang Y., Lin S., Liu Y., Liu H., Koslowski H. R., Eidietis N. W., Zhang J., Zhou R., Zhao H., Ti A., Qian J., Jie Y., Zhang S. and Gao X., NUCLEAR FUSION, 60 (2020) 084002

[14] Dependence of fishbone cycle on energetic particle intensity in EAST low-magnetic-shear plasmas, Zhu X., Zeng L., Qiu Z., Hao B., Shen W., Gu X., Wu M., Tang T., Qian J., Liu H., Jiang D., Xu L., Zhang J., Liu Y., Zang Q., Jie Y., Gao X. and Lin X., JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS, 86 (2020) 905860610

[15] Magnetic energy dissipation during the current quench of disruption in EAST, Tang T., Zeng L., Chen D. L., Granetz R. S., Mao S. T., Duan Y. M., Zhang L., Zhuang H. D., Zhu X., Liu H. Q., Shen B., Jie Y. X. and Gao X., JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS, 86 (2020) 905860509

[16] An efficient technique for magnetic equilibrium reconstruction with q profile constraints and its application on the EAST tokamak, Qian J.P., Lao L.L., Holcomb C.T., Wan B.N., Sun Y.W., Moreau D., Li E., Zeng L., Hanada K., Garofalo A.M., Gong X.Z., Shen B. and Xiao B.J., NUCLEAR FUSION, 57 (2017) 084001

[17] Runaway electron generation during disruptions in the J-TEXT tokamak, Zeng L., Chen Z.Y., Dong Y.B., Koslowski H.K., Liang Y., Zhang Y.P., Zhuang H.D., Huang D.W. and Gao X., NUCLEAR FUSION, 57 (2017) 046001

[18] Improvement of q profile by the polarimeter/interferometer system on EAST tokamak, Zhu X., Zeng L., Liu H., Qian J., Zang Q., Jie Y., Zou Z., Li W., Yao Y. and Gao X., JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 12 (2017) C12060

[19] Experimental observation of hot tail runaway electron generation in TEXTOR disruptions, Zeng L., Koslowski HR, Liang Y, Lvovskiy A, Lehnen M, Nicolai D, Pearson J, Rack M, Denner P, Finken KH and Wongrach K, JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS, 81 (2015) 475810402

[20] Experimental Observation of a Magnetic-Turbulence Threshold for Runaway-Electron Generation in the TEXTOR Tokamak, Zeng L., Koslowski HR, Liang Y, Lvovskiy A, Lehnen M, Nicolai D, Pearson J, Rack M, Jaegers H, Finken KH, Wongrach K and Xu Y, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 110 (2013) 235003

[21] Density fluctuations induced by MARFE on FTU, Zeng L., Tudisco O., Gao W., Zhang S., Gao X., Pucella G. and Apruzzese G., JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERAILS, 438 (2013) S917-S920

[22] Investigation of Some MHD Events in the SUNIST Spherical Tokamak, Zeng L., Gao Z., Tan Y., Wang W., Xie H., Xie L., Feng C., Liu J., Wang L., Yang X., Wu Y., Zhong F. and Gao X., PLASMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 13 (2011) 420

[23] Control of the Vertical Instability in the SUNIST Spherical Tokamak, Zeng L., Gao Z. and He Y., PLASMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 11 (2009) 265

[24] Design of Magnetic Measurement System on SUNIST Spherical Tokamak, Zeng L., He Y., Gao Z., Wang W., Xie L., Tan Y., Zhang L., Xie H., Peng L., Liu J., Wang P. and Zhang L., PLASMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 10 (2008) 535

2020-present, PC member of The IAEA Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation

2021, Outstanding Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences