Yuanbo Zhang is a condensed matter physicist and a professor of physics at Fudan University. He is known for his work on the electronic properties of low-dimensional systems. [1]
He studied physics at Peking University and earned his bachelor's degree in 2000, and a doctorate at Columbia University in 2006 under the supervision of Philip Kim, they work on graphene almost at the same time with Geim and Novoselov. [2] [3] Zhang worked at the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Research Fellow until 2009, [4] when he joined the faculty at Fudan University. He joined the faculty at Fudan University in 2009. [5]
Zhang won the IUPAP(International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) Young Scientist Prize (C8), in 2010. [6] He was awarded the second Nishina Asia award for "his outstanding contributions to the elucidation of electronic properties of monolayer and bilayer graphene." [7]
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