1) photoinduced charge dynamics in energy application

2) photoinduced phase dynamics in quantum materials

3) High harmonic generation and nonlinear optics in solid-state materials

4)Theory of TDDFT and DFPT

Sep. 2013 – Jun. 2019, Ph. D., Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

Sep. 2009 – Jun. 2013, B. Eng. in Materials Science, Jilin University, P. R. China

Mar. 2024-Present, Associate Professor, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jul. 2019 – Mar. 2024, Postdoc Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany

Jul. 2020 – Jun. 2022, Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany

April 2018 – April 2019, Research Assistant, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK

   

1.    W. Li+, Z. Hadjri+, L. Devenica+, J. Zhang+, S. Liu, J. Hone, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Rubio, and A. Srivastavay*. Quadrupolar Excitons in a Tunnel-Coupled van der Waals Heterotrilayer. Nature Materials, 2023, 22,1478–1484.

2.     J. Ginsberg+,*, M. Jadidi+, J. Zhang+,* , C. Chen+, S. H. Chae, G. N. Patwardhan, L, Xian, N. Tancogne-Dejean, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Hone, A. Rubio*, and A. L. Gaeta*. Phonon-Enhanced Nonlinearities in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Nature Communications, 2023,14, 7685.

3.    J. Zhang+, Jia Zhang+, L. Zhou, C. Cheng, C. Lian, J. Liu, S. Tretiak, J. Lischner, F. Giustino and S. Meng*. Universal Scaling of Intrinsic Resistivity in Two-Dimensional Metallic Borophene. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 4585-4589.

4.     J. Zhang*, N. Tancogne-Dejean, L. Xian, E. Boström, M. Claassen, D. M. Kenne, and A. Rubio*. Ultrafast Spin Dynamics and Photoinduced Insulator-to-Metal Transition in α-RuCl3. Nano Lett. 2023, 23 (18), 8712–8718.

5.     J. Zhang+, C. Lian+, M. Guan+, W. Ma, H. Fu, H. Guo, and S. Meng*. Photoexcitation Induced Quantum Dynamics of Charge Density Wave and Emergence of a Collective Mode in 1T-TaS2. Nano Lett. 2019, 19(9), 6027–6034.

6.     J. Zhang, M. Guan, J. Lischner, S. Meng*, and O. V. Prezhdo*, Coexistence of Different Charge Transfer Mechanisms in the Hot Carrier Dynamics of Hybrid Plasmonic Nanomaterials. Nano Lett. 2019,19(5), 3187-3193.

7.     J. Zhang, H. Hong, J. Zhang, H. Fu, P. You, J. Lischner*, K. Liu, E. Kaxiras* and S. Meng*. New Pathway for Hot-electron Relaxation at Two-dimensional Heterostructures. Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 6057−6063.

8.     Y. Liu, J. Zhang*, S. Meng, C. Yam*, and T. Frauenheim*. Electric Field Tunable Ultrafast Interlayer Charge Transfer in Graphene/WS2 Heterostructure. Nano Lett. 2021, 21(10), 4403–4409.

9.     J. Zhang, H. Hong, C. Lian, W. Ma, X. Xu, X. Zhou, H. Fu, K. Liu*, and S. Meng*. Interlayer-State-Coupling Dependent Ultrafast Charge Transfer in MoS2/WS2 Bilayers. Advanced Science 2017, 4(9), 1700086.

10.   J. Zhang*, H. Hong, J. Zhang, C. Wu, H. Peng, K. Liu*, and S. Meng*. Unravelling a Zigzag Pathway for Hot Carrier Collection with Graphene Electrode. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 2886−2891.

11. Y. Kang, W. Ma*, J. Fu, K. Yang, Z. Wang, J. Zhang*, Substrate-mediated Borophane Polymorphs through Hydrogenation of Two-dimensional Boron Sheets. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 10222–10229, (front cover story).

12.  O. Neufeld+, J. Zhang+, U. De Giovannini, H. Hübener, A. Rubio*. Probing phonon dynamics with multi-dimensional high harmonic spectroscopy.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2022,119, (25) e2204219119.

13. Z．Lu, Y. Kang, Y. Du, X. Ma, W. Ma* and J. Zhang*. Functionalizing Janus-Structured Ti2B2 Unveils Exceptional Capacity and Performance in Lithium-ion Battery Anodes. J. Colloid. Inter. Sci., 2024, 661,662-670.

14.   B. Feng, J. Zhang, Q. Zhong, W. Li, S. Li, H. Li, P. Cheng, S. Meng, L. Chen, and K. Wu. Experimental Realization of Two-Dimensional Boron Sheets. Nature Chemistry 2016, 8, 563-568.

15.   D. Rizzo+, J. Zhang+ , B. Jessen, F. Ruta, M. Cothrine, J. Yan, David G. Mandrus, S. Nagler, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. Fogler, A. Pasupathy, A. Millis, A. Rubio*, J. C. Hone, C. Dean, D.N. Basov. Polaritonic Probe of an Emergent 2D Dipole Interface. Nano Lett. 2023, 23 (18), 8426–8435.

TDDFT， Light-Matter interactions

Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship PeSD-NeSL, Project 886291， European Commission

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers,  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation