Shao-Liang Zheng joined Harvard in 2009 and supervises all aspects of X-ray Core. Dr. Zheng also teaches Chem 255, Practical Crystallography in Chemistry and Materials Science in spring term. Before he joined Harvard, he worked with Professor Philip Coppens at SUNY Buffalo as a research scientist, emphasizing photocrystallographic studies of host-guest crystals. He received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2003 at Sun Yat-Sen University (China).