02/1982-04/1993 Assistant (01/1983), Associate Professor (09/1987), Full Professor in Mechanics (07/1992), Department of Civil Engineering, Jiangxi Polytechnic University, Nanchang, China

05/1993-09/2022 Full Professor in Mechanics (05/1993), Yangtse Chair Professor (01/2000), Department Chairman (2004-2011), Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

01/2007-12/2009 Concurrent Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Australia

07/2007-12/2014 Founding Dean of Institute of Advanced Study, Nanchang University, China

07/2009-present Chair Professor, Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP), Tsinghua University, China

01/2010-present Founding Director of Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics (CNMM), Tsinghua University, China

05/2014-12/2015 Founding Director of XIN Center, Tsinghua University (China) & Tel Aviv University (Israel)

2018-present Founding Director, Institute of Superlubricity Technology, Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, China

2019-present Founding Principal, Shenzhen Xinstitute, China

2021-present Vice Chairman, Community of Teaching, Tsinghua University, China

2022-present Professor, Institute of Materials Research, Tsinghua Shenzhen

International Graduate School, China

2022-present Founding Director, Centre of Double Helix (0-1 Innovation & Innovators), Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China

Editor-in-chief, Editorial board members, or Advisor of Journals as follows:

2014-present Extreme Mechanics Letters

2004-2014 Acta Mechanica

1994-present Acta Mechanica Sinica

2003-present Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica

1995-present Advances in Mechanics (in Chinese)

1995-present Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

2007-2011 Chinese Journal of Solid Mechanics (in Chinese)

2003-present Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (in Chinese)

2003-2013 IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics

1997-present International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering

2008-2013 International Journal of Mechanics

2007-present International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

2006-present International Journal of Solids and Structures

2006~present Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids

2001-2011 Q. J. Mechanics (in Chinese)

2007-present Journal of Mechanics and MEMS

2000- Interface Mechanics and Physics: Superlubricity, wetting and transportation, nanomechanics, and their applications in high-end manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and environment

1985- Theory of Constitutive Equations: Theory of representations of tensor functions and its applications to invariant formulations in anisotropic and nonlinear constitutive equations; micromechanics

Outstanding Educator Award, Chen Yidan Foundation and China Teacher Development Foundation, China, (2021)

Teaching Achievement Award, New Century Development Fund of Tsinghua University, China (2021)

SpeciaPrize for Outstanding Teachers of Baosteel, China (2019)

NationaHigher Education Teaching Achievement Award (1^st Class), China (2018)

NationaNaturaScience Award (2^nd Class, 1^st Awardee), China (2017)

NaturaScience Award (1^st Class, 1^st Awardee), awarded by the Ministry of Education, China (2008).

NationaEducation Award (2^nd Class), China (2005).

NationaNaturaScience Award (2^nd Class, 1^st Awardee), China (2004)

Yangzi Chair Professor, the Ministry of Education of China (1999).

NationaOutstanding Specialist (1998).

Hi-Tech Award, K.B. Gao Foundation, Hong Kong (1997)

Distinguished Paper Award, Yokoyama Foundation, Japan (1996).

The Prizes for Young Scientists of China, (11 winners not older than 45 biennially in China) (1996).

Research Achievement Award (1^st Class) and Research Project (1^st Class), YD Huo Education Foundation, Hong Kong (1995).

NationaDistinguished Young Scientists, NationaNaturaScience Foundation, China (1995-2000).

1^st Tsinghua Young Scientist Award (1995)

Advances in Science and Technology Award (1^st Class), the State Education Commission of China (1994).

Outstanding Techer Award (1^st Class), BaosteeEducation Foundation, China (1994)

Advances in Science and Technology Award (1^st Class), the Ministry of Education, China (1994)

Distinguished Paper Award, the Society of Engineering Science (USA) & InternationaJournaof Engineering Science. This Award was initiated in 1994. Professors Q.-S. Zheng and A.J.M. Spencer, FRS (UK) were the first winners (1994).

The Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Germany (1991-1993)

The RoyaSociety Fellow, UK (1990-1991).

The first Excellent Young Researcher Prize, the Chinese Society of Theoreticaand Applied Mechanics (1990).

The Chinese Excellent Young Scientist Prize (100 winners awarded biennially selected from alyounger researchers not older than 35) (1990).

The 1^st Jiangxi Outstanding Scientific and TechnicaProfessional, Jiangxi Province, China (1988).

Distinguished Young Teacher Foundation, the Ministry of Education, China (1987).

Representatives papers (* corresponding author) as follows:

[1] Hod O*, Meyer E, Zheng QS*, Urbakh M: Structural superlubricity and ultralow friction across the length scales. Nature, 563 (2018), 485–492.

[2] Zheng QS*, Jiang B, Liu SP, Weng YZ, Lu L, Xue QK, Zhu J, Jiang Q, Wang S, Peng LM: Self-retracting motion of graphite microflakes. Physical Review Letters, 100 (2008), 067205.

[3] Liu Z, Yang JR, Grey F, Liu JZ*, Liu YL, Wang YB, Yang YL, Cheng Y and Zheng QS*: Observation of microscale superlubricity in graphite. Physical Review Letters, 108 (2012), 205503.

[4] Song YM, Hod O, Ma M*, Zheng QS*：Robust microscale superlubricity in graphite/hexagonal boronnitride layered heterojunctions. Nature Materials, 10 (2018), 1-8.

[5] Zheng QS*, Jiang Q*: Multiwalled carbon nanotubes as gigahertz oscillators. Physical Reviews Letters, 88 (2002), 045503.

[6] Zheng QS*, Yu Y, Zhao ZH: Effects of hydraulic pressure on the stability and transition of wetting modes of superhydrophobic surfaces. Langmuir, 21 (2005), 12207-12212.

[7] Li YS, Quéré D, Lv CJ, and Zheng QS*: Monostable superrepellent materials, PNAS, 114 (2017), 3387-3392.

[8] Zheng QS*: Theory of representations for tensor functions — A unified invariant approach to constitutive equations. Applied Mechanics Review, 47 (1994), 545-587.

[9] Zheng QS*: On transversely isotropic, orthotropic and relative isotropic functions of symmetric tensors, skew-symmetric tensors and vectors: Part I- Part V, International Journal of Engineering Science, 31 (1993), 1399-1453.

[10] Zheng QS*，Du DX: An explicit and universally applicable estimate for the properties of multiphase composites which accounts for inclusion distribution. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 49 (2001), 2765-2788.

[11] Qu CY, Shi SL, Ma M, Zheng QS*: Rotational instability in superlubric joints. Physcial Review Letters, 122.24 (2019), 246101.

[12] Peng DL, Wu ZH, Shi DW, Qu CY, Jiang HY, Song YM, Ma M, Aeppli G, Urbakh M, Zheng QS*: Load-induced dynamical transitions at graphene interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 177.23 (2020), 12618-12623.

[13] Wang KQ, Qu CY*, Wang J, Quan BG, Zheng QS*: Characterization of a microscale superlubric graphite interface. Physical Review Letters, 125.2 (2020), 026101.

[14] Qu CY, Wang KQ, Wang J, Gongyang YJ, Carpick RW, Urbakh M, Zheng QS*: Origin of friction in superlubric graphite contacts. Physical Review Letters, 125.12 (2020), 126102.

[15] Huang XY, Xiang XJ, Nie JH, Peng DL, Yang FW, Wu ZH, Jiang HY, Xu ZP, Zheng QS*: Microscale Schottky superlubric generator with high direct-current density and ultralong life. Nature Communications, 12.1 (2021), 1-10.

[16] Peng DL, Wang J, Jiang HY, Zhao SJ, Wu ZH, Tian KW, Ma M*, Zheng QS*: 100 km wear-free sliding achieved by microscale superlubric graphite/DLC heterojunctions under ambient conditions. National Science Review, 9.1 (2022), nwab109.

[17] Wu ZH*, Huang XY*, Xiang XJ, Zheng QS*: Electro-superlubric springs for continuously tunable resonators and oscillators. Communications Materials, 2.1 (2021), 1-7.

[18] Lv, CJ., Chen, C., Chuang, YC., Tseng, FG., Yin, YJ., Grey, F., Zheng, QS*. (2014). Substrate curvature gradient drives rapid droplet motion. Physical Review Letters, 113(2), 026101.