1998.2-1998.6，1999.3-1999.7澳大利亚国立大学访问学者
1999.8-2003.11日本东北大学多元物质科学研究所博士后
2003年起任复旦大学物理系教授、博士生导师
2006-2010 任复旦大学应用表面物理国家重点实验室副主任；
2010起任复旦大学物理系副主任。
2019年起 厦门大学物理系教授。
获中国物理学会2010－2011年度黄昆物理奖；2012年获国家杰出青年科学基金

1)Wei Xie, Hongxing Dong, Saifeng Zhang, Liaoxin Sun, Weihang Zhou, Yanjing Ling, Jian Lu, Xuechu Shen, and Zhanghai Chen, Room-temperature Polariton Parametric Scattering Driven by a One-dimensional Polariton Condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166401 (2012) .
2)Weihang Zhou, Zhanghai Chen, Bo Zhang, C. H. Yu, Wei Lu, and S. C. Shen, Magnetic Field Control of the Quantum Chaotic Dynamics of Hydrogen Analogs in an Anisotropic Crystal Field, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 024101 (2010).
3)Zhanghai Chen, Weihang Zhou, Bo Zhang, C. H. Yu, Jingbing Zhu, Wei Lu, and S. C. Shen, Realization of Anisotropic Diamagnetic Kepler Problem in a Solid State Environment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 244103 (2009).
4)Liaoxin Sun, Zhanghai Chen, Qijun Ren, Ke Yu, Lihui Bai, Weihang Zhou, Hui Xiong, Z. Q. Zhu, and Xuechu Shen, Direct Observation of Whispering Gallery Mode Polaritons and Their Dispersion in a ZnO tapered Microcavity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100，156403 (2008).
5)Qijun Ren, Jian Lu, H. H. Tan, Shan Wu, Liaoxin Sun, Weihang Zhou, Wei Xie, Zheng Sun, Yongyuan Zhu, C. Jagadish, S. C. Shen, and Zhanghai Chen*, "Spin-resolved Purcell effect in a quantum dot microcavity system", Nano Lett. 12, 3455 (2012)