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PERSONAL DATA:
Name: Gufei Zhang
Scopus ID: 57204153923
Researcher ID: F-4177-2016
ORCID: 0000-0002-0150-5452
Google Scholar ID: 0J4VqxUAAAJ
Lab: Q-MADE, IEP SAS
Email: zhang [at] saske.sk
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Gufei Zhang is a researcher affiliated with the Institute of Experimental Physics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
After completing his BSc in Applied Physics at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Gufei Zhang worked as a research assistant in the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany. Afterwards, he joined the Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (INPAC-KU Leuven), Belgium, and earned his PhD degree in Physics in 2013.
Dr. Zhang's research interests and expertise fall within the wide spectrum of condensed matter physics and materials science and technology.
EDUCATION:
2009 - 2013 PhD in Physics, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Supervisors: Prof. Victor V. Moshchalkov and Prof. Johan Vanacken
2000 - 2004 BSc in Applied Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Supervisors: Prof. Bixia Lin and Prof. Zhuxi Fu
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2026 - Researcher, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
2023 - 2025 Full Professor, Zhengzhou Advanced Research Institute of HIT, China
2018 - 2023 D-IAS Assistant Professor, Danish Institute for Advanced Study and Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
2017 - 2018 Researcher, Division of Semiconductor Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2014 - 2017 FWO Researcher, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2013 - 2014 PDM Research Fellow, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2009 - 2013 PhD student, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2008 - 2009 Predoctoral student, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2005 - 2006 Research Assistant, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
AWARDS & HONORS:
2025 Appointed the IMPULZ Fellowship by the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2025 Conferred an Excellent Author Award by WILEY
2023 Received the Zhongyuan Talent Award from the Provincial Government of Henan in China
2018 Appointed D-IAS Assistant Professor by the Danish Institute for Advanced Study
2017 Awarded Seal of Excellence by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of European Commission
2015 Paper "Superconducting Properties of Nb/Pb/Nb Trilayer" selected by Superconductor Science and Technology for the collection of ‘highlights of 2015’
2014 Appointed FWO Research Fellow by the Flemish Government
2013 Appointed PDM Research Fellow by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2010 Third prize in the poster competition of the NES-ESF Workshop on Nanoscale Superconductivity, Fluxonics and Plasmonics
2008 Awarded INPAC Scholarship by the Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
INVITED TALKS:
30.10.2020 'Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bands in doped diamond', Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invited by Prof. Kasper Grove-Rasmussen
08.05.2019 'Quantum confinement and coherence in nanodiamond', Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, invited by Prof. Luca Camilli
14.03.2019 'Superconductivity and ferromagnetism in diamond', Quantum Phenomena Group, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum, Germany, invited by Dr. Johanna Jochum
09.05.2018 'Superconductivity in diamond', School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China, invited by Prof. Huabing Wang
08.02.2018 'Black diamond: A piece of jewelry for superconductivity', Institut Neel, CNRS, France, invited by Prof. Vincent Bouchiat
24.10.2017 'Superconductivity in diamond', Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, invited by Dr. Jiri Vacik
14.08.2017 'Superconductivity in nanogranular diamond', Advances in Functional Materials, University of California Los Angeles, US
10.11.2016 'Superconductivity in diamond', Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Complexe, EPFL, Switzerland, invited by Prof. László Forró
03.09.2016 'Metal-bosonic insulator-superconductor transition in diamond', Nano Confined Superconductors and Their Applications, Garmisch-Partenkirschen, Germany
05.07.2016 'Superconductivity in diamond', Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany, invited by Dr. Michael Nicklas
10.12.2015 'Superconductivity in boron-doped granular diamond', Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK, invited by Prof. David Moran
08.10.2015 'Superconductivity in diamond', Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany, invited by Prof. Hidenori Takagi
12.05.2015 'Superconductivity vs. granularity in boron-doped diamond', School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, US, invited by Prof. Charles Ahn
20.04.2011 'Disorder-tuned superconductor-insulator transitions in high temperature superconductors and NbN thin films', The WHMEC Workshop on Frontier Science in Pulsed High Magnetic Field, Wuhan, China
REVIEW FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
Physical Review Letters (APS), Advanced Materials (Wiley), ACS Nano (ACS), Advanced Materials Technologies (Wiley), ACS Applied Nano Materials (ACS), Communications Physics (NPG), APL Materials (AIP), Journal of Applied Physics (AIP), IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (IEEE), Europhysics Letters (IOP), Solid State Communications (Elsevier), Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (Springer), Journal of Physics Communications (IOP), Physica C (Elsevier)
REVIEW FOR GRANT PROPOSALS:
ERC Starting Grant
EDITORIAL WORK:
Editorial Board Member for Functional Diamond
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