院士簡歷

Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Xiang Zhang 張　翔
Election Year 2012
Professor Xiang Zhang
President and Vice-Chancellor
The University of Hong Kong
President's Office
10/F, Knowles Building
Pokfulam
HONG KONG
Tel: (852) 2859 2100 / Fax: (852) 2858 9435
院士email

Current Positions

President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (1996), U.S.A.

Professional Experience

President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong (2018-present)
Director, Materials Scientist Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) (2014-2016), Faculty Scientist (2007-2018)
UC Berkeley:
Associate Professor (2004-05); Professor (2005-2018), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Program in Applied Science and Technology (AST)
Director, NSF Nano Scale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)(2003-2018)
Director, DoD MURI Center on Scalable and Reconfigurable Metamaterials and Devices (2001-06)
UCLA:
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (1999-2003); Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2003-04)
The Pennsylvania State University:
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (1996-99)

Specialties

Optoelectronic materials, physics and devices

Awards and Honors

CAREER Award, US National Science Foundation (NSF) (1997)
ONR Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, US Department of Defense (1999)
Chancellor's Professorship, UC Berkeley (2004-09)
His research on superlens was selected as Discover Magazine's Top 100 Science Stories of (2007) (#58)
Negative Refraction breakthrough was selected as Time Magazine's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2008 (#7), Time Magazine's Best 50 Inventions of 2008 (#28)
Fellow, APS (the American Physical Society) (2008)
Fellow, OSA (the Optical Society of America) (2008)
Fellow, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (2008)
Fellow, SPIE (International Society of Optical Engineering) (2008)
Rohsenow Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2009)
Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair Professor, UC Berkeley (2009—)
Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) (2010)
Distinguished Visiting Scientist (DVS), the Institute of Optical Sciences, University of Toronto (2011)
Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting (2011)
William C. Reynolds Memorial Lecturer, Stanford University (2012)
Election to Members of Academia Sinica (2012)
CIE Distinguished Achievement Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers–USA (2014)
Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal (2014)
Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2015)
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015)
Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2015)
Max Born Award, Optical Society of America (2016)
Julius Spring Prize for Applied Physics, Springer (2016)
Distinguished Scientist Award by Chinese Association for Science and Technology USA (CAST-USA)(2016)
John and Virginia Towers Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan Technology University (2017)
John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecturer, Vanderbilt University (2017)
A. C. Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Sciences (2017)
Over 300 Keynote, Plenary and Invited Talks at international conferences and institutions