Michael Zheng

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Assistant ProfessorScientific inquiry
Department of Core Studies
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity Core

Michael Zheng is an assistant professor at St. John’s University’s Department of Core Studies. He has been teaching Scientific Inquiry with a theme in quantum physics since 2017. His first exposure to quantum was an undergraduate quantum mechanics course, and since then, his interest has expanded from using quantum mechanics as a research tool to investigate energy transfer between quantum states to the history and foundational issues of the theory, to pedagogical approaches of teaching conceptual quantum physics for non-science majors. 

Before St. John’s University, he spent more than 20 years in the derivatives markets in New York with a stint of a few years in Singapore and London.  

Apart from Finance and Academia, he is an active hiker and an NYC Marathon finisher. He also enjoys reading. 

Courses taught:

Scientific Inquiry: The Quantum Puzzle and Astronomy

1] Relaxation of molecules with chemically significant amounts of energy: vibrational, rotational, and translational energy recoil of a nitrous oxide bath due to collisions with nitrogen dioxide (E = 63.5 kcal/mol), J. Phys. Chem., 1991, 95 (18), pp 6759–6762 

[2] Non-Native Side Chain IR Probe in Peptides: Ab Initio Computation and 1D and 2D IR Spectral Simulation, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2010, 114 (6), pp 2327–2336  

[3] "Non-Native Side Chain IR Probe in Peptides: Ab Initio computation and 1D and 2D IR Spectral Simulation", J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, 2327-2336.