Dr. Zhou Yan obtained his bachelor degree in University of Science and Technology of China in 2003 and MPhil degree in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2005. He got his PhD degree from Prof. Johan Åkerman's group at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) in 2009. Dr. Zhou joined Hong Kong Institute of Technology as assistant Professor in 2010 and then The University of Hong Kong in 2011 as Research Assistant Professor (Area of Excellence Project led by Prof. Fu-Chun Zhang). Dr. Zhou got the prestigious award of “Thousand Talent programme (youth)" in 2015 and became a full Professor in Nanjing University, China. Then he joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ) as associate professor (with tenure) in 2016. He mainly works on next-generation spintronics devices including spintronic oscillator, Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, and magnetic skyrmions for information processing and storage application. Dr. Zhou has published ~260 papers including 1 Proceedings of the IEEE, 1 Nature Physics, 6 Nature Communications, 1 NPG Asia Materials, and 4 Nano Letters. His Google Scholar citation is ~10100. Dr. Zhou received the awards of “China outstanding PhD student abroad”, “Thousand Talents award (Youth)” and “Top 100 citation Badge by Scientific Reports”. His work has been reported by Phys.org, Science daily, IEEE Spectrum, Storage Newsletter etc. Prof. Zhou is a senior member of IEEE and editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Editorial review board member of IEEE Magnetics Letters. He is reviewer of Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nano Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices etc. In addition to conducting cutting-edge research, he is devoted to high-quality teaching. He was awarded the first “Presidential Exemplary Teaching Award” in CUHKSZ in 2018.
2006-2009 Ph. D., Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
2003-2005 M. Phil., Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
1999-2003 B. Sc., Department of Space Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
2022.07 –now, Full Professor (tenured), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
2016.09 –2022.06, Associate Professor (tenured), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
2015.09 –2016.08, Professor, Faculty of Electronics Science and Technology, Nanjing University, P. R. China
2011.09 –2015.09, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2010.02 –2011.09, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Institute of Technology, Hong Kong
Some useful links:
https://mypage.cuhk.edu.cn/academics/aspin (Website at CUHKSZ)
https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=2BRKcXUAAAAJ&hl=zh-TW (GoogleScholar)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yan_Zhou11 (Researchgate)
http://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01541 (HKU portal)
https://myweb.cuhk.edu.cn/zhouyan (CUHKSZ portal)