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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Su.

Cong Su (simplified Chinese: 苏聪; traditional Chinese: 蘇聰; pinyin: Sū Cōng; born 1957 in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese composer.

He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then in Germany. He has lectured on music theory, music analysis, film music, and ballet music at the Musikhochschule in Munich. Since 1991, he has been a professor of film and media composition at the newly founded State Film Academy in the Stuttgart area.

Together with Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, Su won the Best Original Score Academy Award for the Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor in 1987; the soundtrack album won the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media award at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989.[1]

Su divides his time between Beijing, Lake Constance, and Lucca, Italy.

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Cong Su is a materials scientist specializing in the atomic-scale engineering of two-dimensional (2D) materials, serving as an assistant professor of and , as well as , at since July 2023. His research integrates electron beam manipulation, in-situ (TEM), synthesis, and computational modeling to fabricate and characterize pristine and doped 1D/2D nanostructures for applications in quantum devices and . Su earned a Ph.D. in nuclear science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019, where his dissertation advanced techniques for atomic-precision nanopore engineering in 2D materials like and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Prior to Yale, he held the Heising-Simons Junior Fellowship at the from 2019 to 2021, focusing on stabilizing 2D materials against environmental degradation through waterproof molecular monolayers, a contribution published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that has informed scalable fabrication of robust quantum emitters and sensors. He received his B.S. in physics from in 2013. Su's scholarly impact includes over 4,500 citations and an of 23 as of 2025, with seminal works on lithium metal dendrite growth observed via liquid-cell TEM and high-yield synthesis of freestanding twisted bilayer hBN for van der Waals heterostructures. His Atomic Engineering Group at Yale explores room-temperature beam atom manipulation to create designer defects in 2D materials, enabling breakthroughs in single-photon sources and electrocatalysis. Among his honors are the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2025), Del Favero Prize (2020), and Heising-Simons Fellowship (2019).

Early life and education

Early years

Little publicly available information exists regarding Cong Su's early life and family background prior to his university studies.

Formal education

Cong Su received his B.S. in physics from in 2013. He earned a Ph.D. in nuclear science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2019. His dissertation focused on advancing techniques for atomic-precision nanopore engineering in two-dimensional materials such as and hexagonal (hBN).

Professional career

Cong Su began his research career following his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019. He then joined the , as a Heising-Simons Junior Fellow from 2019 to 2021, working in the group of Alex Zettl on stabilizing 2D materials and atomic-scale engineering. Su continued his postdoctoral research at from 2021 to 2023, focusing on electron beam manipulation of nanostructures and in-situ TEM observations for applications. In July 2023, Su joined as an of and , and of , where he leads the Atomic Engineering Group. His lab develops techniques for room-temperature atom manipulation in 2D materials to enable advances in quantum devices and .

Notable works

Su's research has produced several highly cited publications in materials science, focusing on atomic-scale engineering of 2D materials and applications. His work on lithium metal batteries includes in-situ observations of dendrite growth using liquid-cell (TEM), revealing mechanisms of root growth, dead lithium formation, and lithium flotsams, which has informed strategies to mitigate battery degradation. A seminal contribution is his 2021 study on ultralow contact resistance between semimetal and monolayer semiconductors, achieving resistances as low as 80 Ω·μm through van der Waals integration, enabling efficient quantum devices. Published in Nature, this work has garnered over 1,300 citations as of 2025. Other key publications include the development of two-dimensional halide perovskite lateral epitaxial heterostructures for optoelectronics (Nature, 2020, 493 citations) and gradient Li-rich oxide cathode particles treated with molten salt to prevent oxygen release (Nature Energy, 2019, 346 citations). Su's dissertation advanced atomic-precision nanopore engineering in and hexagonal (hBN), while postdoc research at UC Berkeley demonstrated waterproof molecular monolayers to stabilize 2D materials, published in Proceedings of the (2019). This has facilitated scalable fabrication of robust quantum emitters and sensors. Recent efforts in his Atomic Engineering Group at Yale emphasize room-temperature electron beam manipulation to create designer defects in 2D materials, supporting applications in single-photon sources and electrocatalysis, including high-yield synthesis of freestanding twisted bilayer hBN for van der Waals heterostructures.

Awards and honors

Cong Su has received several honors for his contributions to and . These include the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2025, which provides seed funding for research by junior faculty at ORAU member institutions. In 2020, he was awarded the Del Favero Prize, recognizing outstanding achievements in his field. Earlier, Su held the Heising-Simons Junior Fellowship from 2019 to 2021 at the , supporting his work on stabilizing two-dimensional materials.
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