牛中明
学位：理学博士
职称：教授
研究方向：原子核物理、核天体物理
机器学习、量子多体计算
E-mail：zmniu@ahu.edu.cn

个人简介：
安徽大学物理与材料科学学院教授，博士生导师，入选安徽大学青年骨干教师、优秀人才计划、优秀共产党员等。2011年获北京大学粒子物理与原子核物理专业博士学位，2016年-2017年在日本理化学研究所（RIKEN）工作。曾受邀访问日本东京大学、日本理化学研究所和欧盟极端光基础装置—核物理研究所（ELI-NP）等国外高校或科研机构。长期从事原子核集体激发、原子核β衰变、原子核质量、天体环境下的元素核合成以及机器学习在核物理中应用等课题的研究。发表学术论文60余篇，包括3篇Phys. Rev. Lett.、30余篇Phys. Lett. B或Phys．Rev．A/C/D，总引用950余次，H-index为19。担任国家自然科学基金通信评审专家，担任Phys. Lett. B, Phys. Rev. C, Comput. Phys. Commun.和Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron., Chin. Phys. C等国内外核物理主流期刊审稿人。曾获全国核结构大会优秀青年报告奖、Chin. Phys. C顶级审稿人奖（Top Reviewer Award）等。在放射性核素纪年法方面的工作【Phys. Rev. C 80, 065806】曾被美国物理学会Physics网站首页以“Calibrating the cosmic clock（校准宇宙时钟）”为题报道和评述。近年来讲授量子力学、热学、计算物理、天体物理、大学物理等本科生课程以及原子核物理、计算物理等研究生课程。最新版个人简历参见个人网页：http://xsx.ahu.edu.cn/zmniu/。

承担项目：
1. 国家自然科学基金面上项目(**)：天体快中子俘获过程路径上的原子核β衰变寿命的研究，2019-2022，主持。
2. 国家自然科学基金青年项目(**)：协变密度泛函框架下的原子核集体激发，2013-2015，主持。
3. 安徽省自然科学基金青年项目(**QA10)：相对论平均场原子核质量模型的研究，2017-2019，主持。
4. 国家自然科学基金重点项目(**)：复动量表象的协变密度泛函理论的发展和奇特核研究，2020-2024，参与。
5. 国家自然科学基金国际(地区)合作与交流项目()：原子核质量与寿命—揭示快速中子俘获过程之谜，2017-2019，参与。

代表性论文、著作和专利等：
1. Z. M. Niuand H. Z. Liang*, Nuclear mass predictions based on Bayesian neural network approach with pairing and shell effects, Phys. Lett. B778, 48-53 (2018).
2. Z. M. Niu, Y. F. Niu, H. Z. Liang, W. H. Long, T. Niksic, D. Vretenar, and J. Meng*, beta-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei and matter flow in the r-process, Phys. Lett. B723, 172-176 (2013).
3. Z. M. Niu, H. Z. Liang*, B. H. Sun, W. H. Long, and Y. F. Niu, Predictions of nuclear β-decay half-lives with machine learning and their impact on r-process nucleosynthesis, Phys. Rev. C99, 064307 (2019).
4. Z. M. Niu*, J. Y. Fang, and Y. F. Niu, Comparative study of radial basis function and Bayesian neural network approaches in nuclear mass predictions, Phys. Rev. C100, 054311 (2019).
5. Z. M. Niu, Y. F. Niu, H. Z. Liang, W. H. Long, and J. Meng*, Self-consistent relativistic quasiparticle random-phase approximation and its applications to charge-exchange excitations, Phys. Rev. C95, 044301 (2017).
6. Z. M. Niu*, B. H. Sun, H. Z. Liang, Y. F. Niu, and J. Y. Guo, Improved radial basis function approach with odd-even corrections, Phys. Rev. C94, 054315 (2016).
7. Z. M. Niu, Y. F. Niu, Q. Liu, H. Z. Liang*, and J. Y. Guo, Nuclear beta+/EC decays in covariant density functional theory and the impact of isoscalar proton-neutron pairing, Phys. Rev. C87, 051303(R) (2013).
8. Z. M. Niu*, Q. Liu, Y. F. Niu, W. H. Long, and J. Y. Guo, Nuclear effective charge factor originating from covariant density functional theory, Phys. Rev. C87, 037301 (2013).
9. Z. M. Niu, Z. L. Zhu, Y. F. Niu, B. H. Sun, T. H. Heng, and J. Y. Guo*, Radial basis function approach in nuclear mass predictions, Phys. Rev. C88, 024325 (2013).
10. Z. M. Niu, B. Sun, and J. Meng*, Influence of nuclear physics inputs and astrophysical conditions on the Th/U chronometer, Phys. Rev. C80, 065806 (2009).
11. Z. M. Niu, H. Z. Liang, B. H. Sun, Y. F. Niu, J. Y. Guo, and J. Meng*, High precision nuclear mass predictions towards a hundred kilo-electron-volt accuracy, Sci. Bull.63, 759-764 (2018).
12. N. Li, M. Shi, J. Y. Guo*, Z. M. Niu*, H. Z. Liang*, Probing resonances of the Dirac equation with complex momentum representation, Phys. Rev. Lett.117, 062502 (2016).
13. Y. F. Niu*, Z. M. Niu*, G. Colo*, and E. Vigezzi*, Particle-vibration coupling effect on the beta decay of magic nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett.114, 142501 (2015).
14. C. Ma, Z. Li, Z. M. Niu*, and H. Z. Liang, Influence of nuclear mass uncertainties on radiative neutron-capture rates, Phys. Rev. C100, 024330 (2019).
15. P. Jiang, Z. M. Niu*, H. Z. Liang, Y. F. Niu, and W. H. Long, Strutinsky shell correction energies in relativistic Hartree-Fock theory, Phys. Rev. C98, 064323 (2018).
16. M. Shi, Z. M. Niu*, and H. Z. Liang, Combination of complex momentum representation and Green's function methods in relativistic mean-field theory, Phys. Rev. C97, 064301 (2018).
17. J. S. Zheng, N. Y. Wang, Z. Y. Wang, Z. M. Niu*, Y. F. Niu, and B. Sun, Mass predictions of the relativistic mean-field model with the radial basis function approach, Phys. Rev. C90, 014303 (2014).
18. Z. L. Zhu, Z. M. Niu*, D. P. Li, Q. Liu, and J. Y. Guo*, Probing single-proton resonances in nuclei by the complex-scaling method, Phys. Rev. C89, 034307 (2014).
19. Y. Wang, Z. M. Niu*, M. Shi, and J. Y. Guo, Probing the resonance of Dirac particle in the relativistic point-coupling model by complex-momentum-representation method, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.46, 125103 (2019).
20. Z. Y. Wang, Y. F. Niu, Z. M. Niu*, and J. Y. Guo, Nuclear beta-decay half-lives in the relativistic point-coupling model, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.43, 045108 (2016).
21. T. H. Heng, X. D. Xu, Z. M. Niu*, B. Sun, and J. Y. Guo, Constraint on the cosmic age from the solar r-process abundances, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.41, 105202 (2014).
22. M. Shi, Z. M. Niu*, and H. Z. Liang, Mass predictions of the relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov model with radial basis function approach, Chin. Phys. C43, 074104 (2019).
23. J. Tang, Z. M. Niu*, and J. Y. Guo, Influence of binding energies of electrons on nuclear mass predictions, Chin. Phys. C40, 074102 (2016).
24. Z. Li, Z. M. Niu*, and B. H. Sun*, Influence of nuclear physics inputs and astrophysical conditions on r-process, Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron.62, 982011 (2019).
25. X. M. Hua, T. H. Heng, Z. M. Niu*, B. H. Sun, and J. Y. Guo, Comparative study of nuclear masses in relativistic mean-field model, Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron.55, 2414-2419 (2012).