2004-2008 滨州学院，物理学学士； 2008-2011 中国石油大学（华东），材料学硕士； 2011-2016 弗莱堡大学，物理学博士；

2016-至今 江南大学，生物工程学院，副研究员

1、主持国家自然科学基金青年项目：外膜蛋白诱导下蛋白剪切酶DegS的别构激活机制 研究（2018.1-2020.12）； 2、教师卓越工程项目：跨学科跨专业的人才培养——生物信息学人才培养模式探索；

1. Zheng, Hongning and Lu, Cheng and Lan, Jun and Fan Shilong and Nanda, Vikas and Xu, Fei. How electrostatic networks modulate specificity and stability of collagen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 2018. 2. Lu, Cheng and Knecht, Volker and Stock, Gerhard. Mechanisms for Allosteric Activation of a Protease by Ligand Binding and Oligomerization as Revealed from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics 84, 2016. 3. Lu, Cheng and Knecht, Volker and Stock, Gerhard. Long-range conformational response of a PDZ domain to ligand binding and release: a molecular dynamics study, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12, 2016. 4. Lu, Cheng and Prada-Gracia, Diego and Rao, Francesco. Structure and dynamics of water in crowded environments slows down peptide conformational changes, Journal of Chemical Physics 141, 2014. 5. Lv, Cheng and Xue, Qingzhong and Shan, Meixia and Jing, Nuannuan and Ling, Cuicui and Zhou, Xiaoyan and Jiao, Zhiyong and Xing, Wei and Yan, Zifeng. Self-assembly of double helical nanostructures inside carbon nanotubes, Nanoscale 5, 2013.