Yimei Zhu
Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Biography
Yimei Zhu is a Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Stony Brook University. He has received his BS from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1982, MS and PhD from Nagoya University in 1987. He joined BNL as an Assistant Scientist in 1988, rising through the rank to become Tenured Senior Physicist in 2002. He is the Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Electron Microscopy and Facility Leader of the Functional Nanomaterials at BNL. His research interests include electron crystallography of condensed matter physics of strongly correlated electron systems and advanced electron microscopy including ultrafast microscopy instrumentation. He is an Inaugural Fellow of Microscopy Society of America, a Fellow of American Physical Society and a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered more than 300 invited talks at international conferences.