个人简介

John Zenghui Zhang received his B.S. degree from the Physics Department of East China Normal University in 1982 and his Ph.D. degree from University of Houston in 1987. He did his postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley from 1987 to 1990. He was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at NYU from 1990-1994, an Associate Professor from 1994-1997, and has been a Professor since 1997. Professor Zhang’s current research focus is the development and application of novel computational methods for accurate and efficient study of biological systems. He develops quantum and classical methods, including new polarized force field, to accurately predict protein structure, free energy in protein-drug and protein-protein bindings, conformational dynamics of membrane proteins, structure and dynamics of metalloproteins. John Zhang has received many prestigious awards, including the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1990), the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (1994), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (1995) and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1995). Education and Professional Experience 1978-1982 East China Normal University, B.S. in Physics 1982-1987 University of Houston, Ph. D in Chemical Physics 1987-1990 Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley 1990-1994 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University 1994-1997 Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University 1997- Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University 1997 Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 2001 Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore 2001-2008 Founding Director, Institute of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry,Nanjing University 2005 Visiting Professor, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Taiwan 2009- Professor of Physics, East China Normal University 2013- Professor of Chemistry, NYU Shanghai 2013- Director, NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, NYU Shanghai Awards/Fellowships 1990 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award 1994 National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow 1995 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar 1995 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1999 Overseas Assessor of Chinese Academy of Science (中科院首批海外评审专家) 2000 Outstanding Overseas Young Investigator of NSFC (基金委海外杰出青年基金)