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Xiang Zhang
Chinese-American physicist and mechanical engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zhang Xiang JP (Chinese: 张翔; pinyin: Zhāng Xiáng; born December 1963) is a Chinese-American physicist, mechanical engineer, and academic administrator. He has been serving as the 16th and current president and vice-chancellor of The University of Hong Kong since July 2018.
Quick Facts 16th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong, Chancellor ...
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16th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong | |
Assumed office July 2018 | |
Chancellor | Carrie Lam John Lee Ka-chiu |
Preceded by | Peter Mathieson |
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Born | December 1963 (age 60) Nanjing, Jiangsu, China |
Nationality | American |
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Occupation | Academic administrator |
Profession | Materials scientist, optical engineer, physicist |
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Fields | materials physics, metamaterials and nano-photonics |
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Thesis | Pulsed laser micro-processing of advanced electronic materials and related transport issues (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Costas Grigoropoulos |
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Zhang was the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States, the director of the National Science Foundation Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center, the director of materials science division, and a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[1]