2004-2008 Bachelor, School of Management, BNU
2008-2010 Master, School of Management, BNU
2010-2014 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Fribourg

Sep. 2022–Present

Professor, School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University

Sep. 2017–Aug. 2022

Associate Professor, School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University

Oct. 2014–Aug. 2017

Lecturer, School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University

Apr. 2014–Oct. 2014

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Zeng’s research mainly focuses on empirical and applied studies in Complex Networks, Science of Science, Information Mining, and Urban Science. He has published 158 papers, 58 of which were published in the past five years, accumulating over 4,000 citations and achieving an H-index of 33. Six of these papers have each garnered over 100 citations, with the most-cited paper receiving 470 citations.

As the first author, Zeng has published in journals such as: Nature Human Behaviour (1 paper), Nature Communications (1 paper), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 paper), and Physics Reports (1 paper). The paper published in Nature Human Behaviour in 2011 was featured as the journal’s cover and highlighted as a research spotlight in Nature. The paper published in PNAS in 2022 was also selected as the journal’s cover.

As the corresponding author, Zeng has published papers in journals such as Physical Review Letters (1 paper), Nature Human Behaviour (1 paper), Physics Reports (1 paper), PNAS (1 paper), PNAS Nexus (1 paper), and PLOS Computational Biology (1 paper).