Mingliang Tian obtained his Ph.D. degree from Wuhan University in 1992. He became a faculty member in 1994 as an Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and was promoted
to Full Professor in 1998. In 1996 and 1999, Dr Tian pursued his research career at Teikyo University in Japan and LEPES/CNRS, Gronoble, France, as a visiting scientist. From 2001 to 2010, Dr. Tian worked at Pennsylvania State University as a Research Associate and then as an Assistant Professor of physics. Since 2010, he has been employed as a researcher by the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHMFL). Since 2017, he has been the Dean of the School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering at Anhui University. His research interests involve charge-density waves, carbon nanotubes, high-Tc superconductivity, and physical properties in confined geometries.
