Outstanding Researcher Award 2024

 

Professor Shuang ZHANG received his BSc and MSc degrees from Jilin University and his PhD degree from the University of New Mexico. Thereafter, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley. From 2010 to 2020, he served first as a Reader and later as a Professor at the University of Birmingham. In 2020, Professor Zhang joined the University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Professor Zhang has made significant contributions to the fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics. His work spans fundamental physics, including topological and nonlinear metamaterials, as well as practical applications of metamaterials and plasmonics, such as superimaging, sensing, and metasurface optical devices. He has been honoured with the Young Scientist Award in Optics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, a European Research Council Consolidator Grant, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Award, and the New Cornerstone Investigator Program. He was elected as an Optica Fellow in 2016 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022, and has consistently been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate since 2018.

 

Professor Zhang greatly enjoys mentoring and interacting with young researchers. He takes pride in cultivating numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom have secured faculty positions in regions around the world, including Mainland China, the USA, the UK, Korea, and Taiwan.