Jun Zhang#
| Membership Number: | 6729 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://physics.nyu.edu/jz11/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011.06 - present Full Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Co-director of the Applied Math Lab of Courant Institute, New York University
- 2014.09 - 11 Visiting Professor at Aix-Marseille University, France
- 2001.09 - 2011.06 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of Physics and Mathematics, New York University, USA
- 1998.09 - 2001.08 Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
- 1994.11 - 1998.08 Postdoctoral Fellow, A. Libchaber Lab, Rockefeller University, USA
- 1991.01 - 1994.10 Research Assistant (Ph.D. candidate), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1989.09 - 1991.01 Research Assistant (Ph.D. candidate), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics of fluid
- Biological Physics (animal swimming and flying)
- Nonlinear dynamics and complex systems
- Experimental fluid dynamics
- Instabilities and symmetry-breaking bifurcations
- Soft matter physics
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Nov. American Physical Society (APS) Fellow, Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), USA
- 2015 July Antarctica Service Medal, National Science Foundation, USA
- 2015 Dec. Holiday Lecture speaker at the Courant Institute of New York University, USA
- 2014 Nov. The Milton Van Dyke Award, American Physical Society, USA
- 2005 Sept. The Goddard Fellowship at New York University, USA
- 1992 - 1993 The Daloon Foundation Scholarship, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1990 - 1991 The Saadia Amiel Scholarship, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Media Coverage (fuller list
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- Research work featured in Le Monde (2015), The Economist (2008), Physics Today (2008), Physics Focus (2008), New Scientist (2008, 2005, 2004, 2000), ABC TV "Evening News with Peter Jennings" (2003), New York Times (2002), Physics World (2001), Science News (2001), Spektrum (2000), BBC Radio (2000), Discover Magazine (2001), La Recheche (2001), etc.
