EMPLOYMENT

• 2022 - present Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

• 2024 - present QRI Fellow, Michigan Quantum Research Institute, University of Michigan

• 2017 - 2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

• 2013 - 2016 Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics, California Institute of Technology

EDUCATION

• 10/2013 Ph.D in Physics, Columbia University

• 07/2011 M.Phil in Physics, Columbia University

• 07/2010 M.S. in Physics, Columbia University

• 06/2008 B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

AWARDS & HONORS

• 2025 APS Fellowship, Division of Condensed Matter Physics, American Physical Society, USA

• 2025 APS Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society, USA

• 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), USA

• 2025 Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Award, University of Michigan

• 2024 LSA LEAD Fellow, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan

• 2023 Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship, the Cluster of Excellence, Hamburg, Germany

• 2023 Henry Russel Award, University of Michigan

• 2022 Macronix Prize, International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA)

• 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Sloan Foundation

• 2020 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Inveestigator Award, USA

• 2019 Bryan R. Coles Prize, International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron System (SCES)

• 2018 NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, USA

• 2017 Kavli Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, USA

• 2013 - 2016 Richard Chase Tolman Fellowship, California Institute of Technology

• 2013 Charles Townes Fellowship, Columbia University

• 2008 - 2013 Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University

• 2008 National Scholarship for Undergraduates, China

• 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, University of Science and Technology of China

• 2007 Excellence in Undergraduate Research, University of Science and Technology of China

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY ROLES

• 2027 Program chair, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)

• 2025 PI meeting co-chair, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Energy

• 2023 - 2026 Member-at-Large, Division of Laser Science, American Physical Society

• 2023 - present Editorial board member, Physical Review X, American Physical Society

• 2023 - 2025 Associate editor, Progress in Quantum Electronics, Elsevier

• 2024 Guest editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

• 2021 - 2023 Editor, Solid State Communications, Elsevier

• 2020 - 2022 FS4 subcommittee chair, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)

PUBLICATIONS (Plese see L. Zhao google scholar)

TEACHING

• Physics 391 Introduction to Modern Physics Lab 2017W, 2018W, 2019W, 2021W, 2025F

• Physics 405 Intermediate Electromagnetism 2020W, 2023F

• Physics 453 Quantum Mechanics I 2018F, 2019F, 2022F, 2024F

• Physics 460 Quantum Mechanics II 2024W, 2025W