Professor ZHANG, Bing
Chair Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, HKU
B.S. Peking University; Ph.D. Peking University
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- 3917 5932
- 2559 9152
- Room 523, CYM Physics Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Current Research
Gamma-ray bursts
Fast radio bursts
Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves
Multi-messenger astrophysics
FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope): FRB Key Science Project (PI: 2000-2025)
Einstein Probe: Chair of multi-messenger Science Topical Panel, member of scientific management committee (2023-)
SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor) Chinese-French GRB mission: Mission Scientist (2009-)
Research Interest
Theoretical astrophysics
High-energy astrophysics
Multi-messenger astrophysics
Black holes, neutron stars, astrophysical transients
Representative Publications
Bing Zhang, “The physics of gamma-ray bursts”, 2018, Cambridge University Press, DOI: 10.1017/9781107027619 (a 578-page textbook/monograph)
Bing Zhang, “The physics of fast radio bursts”, 2023, Reviews of Modern Physics, 95 (3), 035005
Bing Zhang, “The physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts”, 2020, Nature, 587, 45-53
Pawan Kumar & Bing Zhang, “The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets”, 2015, Physics Reports, 561, 1-109
Bing Zhang & Pawan Kumar, “Model-dependent high-energy neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts”, 2013, Physical Review Letters, 110(12), 121101
Bing Zhang & Huirong Yan, “The internal-collision-induced magnetic reconnection and turbulence (ICMART) model of gamma-ray bursts”, 2011, The Astrophysical Journal, 726(2), 90
Bing Zhang, Yi-Zhong Fan, Jaroslaw Dyks, Shiho Kobayashi, Peter Meszaros, David N. Burrows, John A. Nousek & Neil Gehrels, “Physical processes shaping GRB X-ray afterglow lightcurves: theoretical implications from the Swift XRT observations”, 2006, The Astrophysical Journal, 642, 354
Awards and Honours
2024 | | | Nevada Regents' Researcher Awards, Distinguished Career |
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| 2024 | | | Highly ranked scholar (ranked #36 among 39 scholars who received the honor) in Astronomy during Lifetime according to ScholarGPS |
| 2022-2024 | | | Highly ranked scholar (ranked #4, #1, #6, respectively) in Astronomy during the prior 5 years according to ScholarGPS |
| 2022-2024 | | | Highly ranked scholar (ranked #4 among 27 scholars who received the honor) in Gamma Ray during Lifetime according to ScholarGPS |
| 2020 | | | Finalist for the Association of American Publisher's PROSE (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) Award in the Cosmology and Astronomy category |
| 2020 | | | Main corresponding author of one of the three papers (Lin et al. 2020, Nature, 587, 63-65) selected as #4 of the "Top Ten Breakthrough of the Year" in 2020 by the Science magazine and one of the "Ten Remarkable Discoveries from 2020" by the Nature magazine |
| 2020 | | | UNLV Distinguished Professor Award |
| 2012 | | | Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award, UNLV |
| 2009 | | | Thomson Reuters Science Watch analysis: Total number of citations and total number of papers ranked #11 and #6 in the period 1999-2008 in the field of gamma-ray bursts; 6 papers identified in the top 20 most cited papers in 2007-2008; 3 first-author papers identified as the core papers of Research Front Map of Gamma-Ray Bursts" |
| 2009 | | | College of Sciences Distinguished Researcher Award, UNLV |
| 2007 | | | First author of the "New Hot Paper" in the field of Space Science identified by Essential Science Indicators in July 2007 (Zhang et al. 2006, ApJ, 642, 354) |
| 2007 | | | Bruno Rossi Prize, High Energy Astrophysics Division of American Astronomical Society, as a Swift team member (honored to Neil Gehrels and the NASA Swift mission team) |
| 2005 | | | Discovery of first afterglow of short duration GRBs (Gehrels, Sarazin, O'Brien, Zhang and 73 coauthors, 2005, Nature, 437, 851) ranked #4 Breakthrough of Year 2005 by the Science Magazine |