Jun Zhang - Curriculum Vitae#
Positions held:
- 2001.09 - present Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Co-director of the Applied Math Lab, NYU, USA
- 2013.09 - present Affiliated Professor of Physics and Mathematics, New York University Shanghai, China
- 1998.09 - 2001.08 Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, USA
- 1994.11 - 1998.08 Postdoctoral Fellow, Libchaber Lab, Rockefeller University, USA
Education:
- 1991.01 - 1994.10 Ph.D. in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen, Supervisors: M. Levinsen and P. Alstrom
- 1989.09 - 1991.01 Ph.D. Ph.D. candidate, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel, Supervisors: D. Amit and M. Rokni
- 1981.09 - 1985.07 B.S. in Physics, Wuhan University, P. R. China
Jun works on experimental fluid physics and its many applications, focusing on fluid-structure interactions that are motivated by biological or geophysical problems. They include flapping flags and flexible structures in flows, bio-locomotion (flying and swimming), autonomous motion of micro-scale swimmers, and geological dynamics (continent-mantle coupling). His latest work aim to investigate the performance of flapping wings in turbulence, group locomotion of animals. the symmetry breaking phenomena taking place inside the Earth (namely the 'super-rotation' of the solid core and the cyclic motion of continents).
His peer-reviewed publications include Nature, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter, etc. He has also served as reviewers for these journals. Jun has given over 290 invited talks and colloquia, many of them were tailored for the general public.
Jun was elected in 2017 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), with citation: “For his elegant and artful experiments that have moved fluid-structure interactions into the scientific mainstream, and which have inspired their study in physics, biology, engineering, geophysics, and applied mathematics.” Outside of his scientific career, he worked as a freelance illustrator for several magazines and he is working to publish his 35-year accumulation of sketches in a book "Far away and near heart (tentative title)".
