Fang Zhong

Fang Zhong (Chinese: 方忠; pinyin: Fāng Zhōng; born 1970) is a Chinese physicist and the current Director of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.[1]

Fang Zhong
方忠
Born1970 (age 50–51)
Wuhan, Hubei
NationalityChinese
Alma materHuazhong University of Science and Technology
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter physics
InstitutionsInstitute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
In this Chinese name, the family name is Fang.

Biography

Fang was born in Wuhan in 1970. He received his bachelor's degree and doctor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1991 and 1996, respectively.

After university, he became a visiting scholar at the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Japan and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. He returned to China in 2003 and became a research follow at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He served as deputy director of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012, and five years later promoted to the Director position. On November 21, 2017, he was appointed director of the Beijing National Research Center for Condensed Matter Physics.[2]

Honours and awards

References
  1. 方忠任中科院物理所所长. sciencenet.cn (in Chinese). 13 June 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  2. "Director Fang, Zhong". CAS. 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  3. "The Prize Winners A list of past ICTP Prize Winners". ICTP.it. 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  4. 2019年中科院院士增选结果揭晓，64人当选，最小年龄42岁. ifeng (in Chinese). 22 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  • Biography of Fang Zhong on Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Theory and Computation, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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