Biography
Prof. Shuang Zhang received BS and MS. in Physics from Jilin University, China, in 1996, MS. in Physics from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1999, and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2005. From December 2005 to August 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and from August 2006 to March 2010, he was first a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and later an Assistant Research Engineer at the University of California Berkeley. In 2010, he took the position of Reader in the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, and was promoted to professor in 2013. In 2020, he joined the University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor, affiliated with both the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Prof. Zhang is a Co-Executive Editor-in-Chief for Light: Science & Applications and serves on the editorial board of Advanced Photonics. He has previously been a Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters.
His research spans metamaterials, nanophotonics, topological photonics, light matter interactions and nonlinear optics. He has published more than 200 papers in prestigious journals, including Science, Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, and Physical Review Letters.
Prof. Zhang has received several awards, including the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics in 2010, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2016, and the New Cornerstone Investigator Program in 2023. He was elected a Fellow of Optica in 2016 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2022. Since 2018, he has consistently been listed among the “Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate Analytics.