Yu Zhang received his BSc in Physics from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from The University of Hong Kong in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. Yu joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 2018 as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow and transitioned to a staff member in 2019. He is the recipient of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Early Career Research Award (2022) and the DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Award (2023). Yu’s research lies at the intersection of chemical physics and quantum physics, with a focus on developing and applying modern electronic structure theories and quantum dynamics methods to explore the electronic, optical, and dynamical properties of nanomaterials for applications in energy and quantum technologies. Yu’s current interests include quantum computation, quantum information science, light-matter interactions, open quantum systems, and non-adiabatic quantum dynamics.systems, and non-adiabatic quantum dynamics.
Yu Zhang
Los Alamos National Laboratory
