Name: Tiancheng Song
Title, including department and school you work in: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Hometown: Tianjin, China
Educational/professional background: Dicke Fellow, Princeton University, 2021-2024; Ph.D. in Physics, University of Washington, 2016-2021; B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012-2016
What is your field of research, and how did you get into it? Condensed Matter Physics, I like doing “tabletop” experiments and exploring emergent phenomena in quantum materials.
What attracted you to UW-Madison? UW-Madison is a great university in a beautiful city, and my partner is here.
What was your first visit to campus like? It was in the fall, and it was a great visit with nice weather.
What’s the most important lesson you wish to convey to students? Good things don’t come easy.
What’s something interesting about your area of expertise you can share that will make us sound smarter at parties? We can harvest atomically thin two-dimensional materials by just using just a “scotch tape”, and we can engineer those 2D quantum materials and fabricate van der Waal heterostructures just like playing with LEGO, where each 2D material layer is a LEGO building block.
Hobbies/other interests: Badminton and Tennis.