Xiang Zhang

Xiang Zhang

Xiang Zhang ( Chinese  张 翔 , Pinyin Zhāng Xiáng ) (born August 1963 in Nanjing , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese-American physicist in the field of nanotechnology .

Zhang received the Ph.D. from UC Berkeley . He was an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University from 1996 to 1999 and an associate professor and then professor at UCLA from 1999 to 2004 before joining UC Berkley. Zhang Ernest S. Kuh is Endowed Chaired Professor and Director of the NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC). He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of APS (The American Physical Society ), OSA (The Optical Society of America ), AAAS (The American Association for the Advancement of Science ) and SPIE (The International Society) of Optical Engineering ).

Zhang published more than 180 papers. His main research interests are nanotechnology, materials science , biotechnology and photonics .

Awards

• 1997: NSF CAREER Award
• 1998: SME Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
• 1999: ONR Young Investigator Award
• 2004: Distinguished Lecturer from the University of Texas at Austin
• 2004 to 2009: Chancellor's Professorship from UC Berkeley
• 2005: Distinguished Lecturer at SEMETECH
• 2006: R&D Magazine: Top 25 the Most Innovative Products of 2006
• 2007: Discover Magazine: "Top 100 Science Stories"
• 2008: Time Magazine : "Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Year" and 50 Best Inventions of the Year "
• 2009: Rohsenow Lecturer at MIT
• 2016: Max Born Award
• 2016: Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics
• 2017: AC Eringen Medal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mcc.com.cn/mccen/about_mcc/_325395/_349194/356325/index.html
2. ^ Professor Xiang Zhang (Brief Biography). (PDF; 12 kB) Accessed July 3, 2011 (English). 
3. ↑ Prof. Xiang Zhang's Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Retrieved July 3, 2011 .