Records of the Grand Historian and Sima, Qian, Gold

Writing Pedagogy, General Education, Physical Chemistry, History of Science

2013–2018: Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Tsinghua University

2009–2013: B.S. in Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University

2025–Present: Lecturer & Deputy Director, Teaching Center for Writing and Communication (TCWC), Tsinghua University

2022–2025: Lecturer, TCWC, Tsinghua University

2020–2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Education, Tsinghua University

2018–2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University

Deputy Director, Center for Liberal Education, Tsinghua University (2022–Present)

Member, Competition Affairs Committee, Chinese Chemical Society (2023–Present)

Council Member, University General Education Branch, China Association for Suzhi Educationn (2023–Present)

Associate Member, Commission I.1 (Physical Chemistry Symbols, Terminology, and Units), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (2021–Present)

Physical Chemistry I, Physical Chemistry II (Tsinghua University Excellent Courses)

A Brief History of Chemistry (co-taught)

Academic Writing for Chemistry Graduate Students (co-taught)

Dialogues with Nature (co-taught)

Tsinghua University Excellent Course: Writing and Communication: Records of the Grand Historian and Sima Qian (2024)

Most Popular with Students Award, Best Teaching Reflection Award & Third Prize, 13th Basic Teaching Skills Competition for Young Teachers in Beijing’s Universities (Science Group) (2023)

Second Prize, National Teaching Achievement Award in Higher Education (Undergraduate) (2022, 6th of 10 recipients)

Second Prize, 10th Tsinghua University Young Faculty Teaching Competition (Science and Medical Group) (2022)

First Prize, Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award (2021, 6th of 10 recipients)

Annual New Academic Work in Teaching, Award, TCWC, Tsinghua University (2021)

First Prize, Tsinghua University Teaching Achievement Award (5th recipient, 2021)

Academic Research

Deng Geng. From Small to Big: the Theme Selection of General Educational Writing Courses. Writing, Issue 3, 2023, pp. 103–112.

Deng Geng. Arrangement of Physical Chemistry Curriculum Content Order: Observation via “Disciplinary Thought-Cognitive Rule” Dual Perspectives. Chinese Journal of Chemistry Education, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2023, pp. 8–16.

Deng Geng. The Relationship Between Element Property and its Application: A Case Study of Germanium. Education in Chemistry, Issue 1, 2022, pp. 89–92.

Deng Geng. Lavoisier’s Chemistryl Revolution and Its Introspection and Inspiration. Education in Chemistry, Issue 12, 2021, pp. 93–97.

Deng Geng, Li Chengqing, Su Peng. Ability Cultivation in General Education Courses: Taking‘Writing and Communication’ Course at Tsinghua University as an Example. General Education Review, Issue 1, 2019, pp. 88–97.

Wang Xiaofang, Deng Geng. A Research and Comparison of Writing Course Project in USA: Taking Princeton University as an Example. Higher Education of Sciences, Issue 3, 2019, pp. 68–73, 17.

Books

Deng Geng. The Eastern Mountain and the Western Sea: Essays on the Margins of Academia. Wuhan: Changjiang Literature & Art Publishing House, 2024.

Deng Geng. A Chemical Elements Course for Children. Beijing: China Women Publishing House, 2023 (Part of the“Chinese Scientist Fathers’ Thinking Training Series”).

Antoine Lavoisier. Elements of Chemistry. Translated by Deng Geng. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Press, 2023 (Part of the “High Mountains Classic Science Series” by Guomai Culture).

Deng Geng. Elements of Chemistry (Illustrated Edition for Children). Nanning: Jieli Publishing House, 2022 (Selected as “China Good Book” by the China Book Review Association in March 2022, listed in the 2022 Excellent Bestseller Chart by China Press and Publishing Media and the 2022 Excellent Children’s Books Chart; awarded Excellence Prize in the 2022 Guangxi Top Ten Popular Science Books Competition).

Deng Geng. Drawing a Circle with the Left Hand and a Square with the Right. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2019.

Research Projects

Principal Investigator, Sub-project “A Chinese Perspective on Science and Technology from the Viewpoint of Civilizational Mutual Learning: Returning to the Roots and Opening New Horizons” under the Major Entrusted Project of the Marxist Research and Construction Project “Mutual Learning Between China and the West and the Study of Building a Modern Chinese Civilization” (2024–2025)

Principal Investigator, Later-stage Funding Project “Book Manuscript Later-stage Funding for Examples of the Book of Changes,” Independent Scientific Research Program (Humanities Special Funding), Tsinghua University (2024–2025)

Principal Investigator, Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project “Reform of the Curriculum System and Teaching Methods for Physical Chemistry II from ‘Disciplinary Thought-Cognitive Rule’ Dual Perspectives” (2022–2024)

Principal Investigator, Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project “Curriculum Design for Writing Courses from the Perspective of Consilience” (2021–2022)