Donna Sheng
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Don-Ning "Donna" Sheng is a condensed matter physicist whose research involves two-dimensional systems including the fractional quantum Hall effect and quantum spin Hall effect,[1] as well as the natural emergence of supersymmetry in topological superconductors.[2] She is a professor of physics at California State University, Northridge,[3] and is also affiliated with the Princeton Center for Complex Materials at Princeton University.[4]
Sheng earned a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a Ph.D. in 1989 from Nanjing University. She joined the faculty at California State University, Northridge in 2000,[3] after working as a researcher in the Texas Center for High Temperature Superconductivity at the University of Houston since 1990.[5]
At California State University, Northridge, more than half of the students are female, and in 2014 80% of the honors students from science and mathematics were female. As part of the university's system of encouragement for women in STEM fields, Sheng runs a support group for female physics majors.[6]
