User:Koalad/sandbox/Shengbai Zhang

Shengbai Zhang is a condensed matter physicist and a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he holds Gail and Jeffrey Kodosky ’70 Senior Constellation Professor. He is renowned for his computational modeling and research in semiconductor defects.

Zhang earned his bachelor’s degree from Jilin University in China and his master’s and doctorate in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. A fellow of the American Physical Society, he is author and co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. While at NREL, he received the Chunky Bullet Award from the U.S. Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences, the Outstanding Performance Award, and the Director’s Award.

His research goal is to use quantum-mechanical computations to discover solutions to some of today’s most pressing challenges in technology, security, sustainable energy, and the environment. His recent research focused on breaking technology barriers to alternative sources of energy, including hydrogen. He also has conducted extensive research in nanophysics, doping physics, surface physics, interface physics, high-pressure physics, and many-body physics.