Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Zhi Gang Yu

EDUCATION

• 1991-1996
Graduate Student, PhD Degree in Theoretical Physics awarded
Department of Physics, Fudan University, China
• 1986-1991
Undergraduate Student, BS Degree in Physics awarded
Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2006-present: SRI International, Senior Research Physicist
2003-2006: SRI International, Research Physicist
• Organic spintronics
• Ferromagnetic semiconductors
• Charge/spin transport in semiconductors and devices
• Semiconductor nanostructures for hydrogen production
• Nonlinear optical properties in semiconductors and alloys

2001-2003: University of Iowa, Postdoctoral Research Scholar
• Spin-dependent transport in semicondcutors and devices

1999-2001: Iowa State University, Visiting Professor
• Temperature-dependent electrical conductivity along DNA
• Renormalization group study of dielectric response in proteins
• Modeling of electron transfer in photosynthesis

1996-1999: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Director Postdoctoral Fellow
• Field-dependent mobility in dense conjugated polymer films
• Dynamical transport in metal/organic/metal structures
• Excitons and bipolarons in quasi-one dimensional organics
• Impurity effect on excitons and the dissociation of excitons
• Unusual low-energy magnetic excitations in La₂Cu_0.5Li_0.5O₄
• Striped phases and their experimental signatures in cuprate- and nickelate-oxides

1991-1996: Fudan University, Graduate Student
• Interplay of electron-electron and electron-lattice interactions in polymers and C₆₀
• Time evolution of photo induced charge transfer in conductive polymers
• Nonlinear optical susceptibility in one-dimensional systems
• Exciton and biexciton states in luminescent polymers
• Effects of Coulomb interactions on hot electrons transport in quantum wires

RESEARCH FUNDING & GRANTS

• Spin properties of Transition-metallorganic Self-Assembled Molecules, Principlal Investigator, funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) of the US Department of Energy, 2006-2009
• Formation of Defect Microstructures and Electrical Transport in VOx, Principal Investigator, funded by the US Army Research Office, 2005-2008

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Technical Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Advanced Materials, Journal of Physics, and Physics Letters A.
• Proposal Reviewer for the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Department of Energy, and the US Army Research Office.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Zong-Zhi Zhang Science & Technology Award, USTC, 1991
• GuangHua Award, Fudan University, 1992
• Tsung-Dao Lee Physics Award, Fudan University, 1993
• Three-M International Foundation Award, Fudan University, 1995
• Director Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1996-98
• National Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize, Chinese Ministry of Education, 1999

THESES

• Electron-Electron Interactions in Conducting Polymers, MX Chains, and Fullerenes, Fudan University, May 1996.
• Fourth-generation effects in Z⁰ to bb decay, Univeristy of Science & Technology of China, June 1991.

REFERENCES

• Prof. Michael E. Flatté, Department of Physics and Astronomy, U. of Iowa;
  Email: michael-flatte@uiowa.edu
• Dr. Darryl L. Smith, MST-11, Los Alamos National Laboratory;
  Email: dsmith@lanl.gov
• Dr. Alan R. Bishop, T-DO, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
  Email: arb@lanl.gov
• Prof. Xin Sun, Department of Physics, Fudan University, CHINA,
  Email: xinsun@fudan.ac.cn
• Dr. Avadh B. Saxena, T-11, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
  Email: abs@viking.lanl.gov
• Prof. Serguei A. Brazovskii, LPS, Univ. Paris-Sud, FRANCE,
  Email: brazov@lps.u-psud.fr