{"id":7,"date":"2014-07-29T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ac.fiu.edu\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:46:52","slug":"groupmembers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/groupmembers\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"7\" class=\"elementor elementor-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2efaf22 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2efaf22\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3721674e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3721674e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1><span style=\"color: #000000\">Group Leader<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Zhe Cheng<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2230 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/12\/CHENG-Zhe_2024_500-e1766004187652-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/12\/CHENG-Zhe_2024_500-e1766004187652-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/12\/CHENG-Zhe_2024_500-e1766004187652-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/12\/CHENG-Zhe_2024_500-e1766004187652.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ph.D. Materials Science &amp; Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">M.S. Materials Science &amp; Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">B.S. Materials Science &amp; Engineering, Tsinghua University, China<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">3317 W Vine Dr.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Fort Collins, CO 80521<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tel: +1-970-491-0246<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Email: zhe.cheng@colostate.edu<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/b\/s!Ahoo8wRixVcLhKA9IjRCNXVxADQuZQ?e=Z6XK97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Cheng CV<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7332-604X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ORCID<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Before joining Colorado State University, Dr. Cheng worked as an assistant and then associate professor at Florida International University (FIU) for 11 years.\u00a0 Earlier, he was a research scientist at the Central Research &amp; Development department of the industrial conglomerate &#8211; E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) in Wilmington, Delaware on various projects including advanced metallization materials for silicon solar cells.\u00a0 Dr. Cheng\u2019s expertise is in the design, synthesis, processing, and characterization of advanced functional ceramic and ceramic-metal hybrid materials for solid-state energy conversion (such as solid oxide fuel cells and solar cells) and applications under extreme conditions (such as high temperature or high pressure)<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ph.D. Students<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Zhen (Zain) Guo<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/08\/Guo-Zhen_portrait-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">CSU 2024 Aug &#8211;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">FIU 2024 Jan &#8211; 2024 Apr<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">B.S. Chemical Engineering &amp; Technology, Heilongjiang University, China (2023)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Current Project: New materials for solid-state energy conversion &amp; storage<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Raiyan Bin Sabroj<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/ac.fiu.edu\/groupmembers\/raiyan_2023-01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1726\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engr.colostate.edu\/laboratories\/ceramics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/01\/Raiyan_2023-01-e1673027466163-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">CSU 2024 Aug &#8211;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">FIU 2023 Jan &#8211; 2024 Jul<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">B.S. 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