Professor Zhigang Chen joins our journal team

Name: Zhigang Chen

Title: Professor

Position: Editorial Board Member

Affiliation: The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

Research Interest: material physics; nonlinear optics; topological photonics; beam shaping; optical manipulation; photonic lattices

Website: https://my.nankai.edu.cn/wlxy/czg_en/list.htm

Publications(Scopus/WoS/Google scholar/etc.):

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35241838600

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RJML1hgAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7050-9943

Dr. Zhigang Chen is a professor at San Francisco State University and also a specially-appointed professor at Nankai University, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1995. After two years of postdoctoral work, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Research Staff Member at Princeton University before joining the faculty at SFSU in 1998. He has edited one book and published 8 invited book chapters, and he has over 300 papers in top-rated journals and conference proceedings including those in Physical Review Letters and the Science and Nature family of journals. His work received over 10,000 citations and an h-index of 74 (according to Google Scholar), and was featured frequently in science magazines and news media. His research has been supported by NSF, NIH, AFOSR, ARO, Petroleum Research Fund, and Research Corporation. Dr. Chen received the Chinese Distinguished Oversea Young Scholar Award in 2004 and the Cheung Kong Scholar Award by the Ministry of Education of China in 2006. He was elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2009 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015. Dr. Chen serves as an Editor for Optics Letters, Scientific Reports, Science Bulletin, and Advances in Physics X, and as a Program/General Chair for CLEO-Fundamental Science in 2016/18.