Zhao Zhentang

Zhao Zhentang (Chinese: 赵振堂; born May 1961) is a Chinese engineer and currently vice-president of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Chinese Nuclear Society (CNS) and the Chinese Physical Society (CPS).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhao.
Zhao Zhentang
BornMay 1961 (age 59)
China
Alma materTsinghua University
Scientific career
FieldsAccelerant
Electrolaser
InstitutionsShanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese趙振堂
Simplified Chinese赵振堂

Biography

Zhao was born in May 1961. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he enrolled at Tsinghua University. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Institute of High Energy Physics in 1990. For the next few years he continued his laboratory work at the institute, where he took part in the research of Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC). He was a visiting scholar at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In 1998 he moved to Shanghai to participate in the construction of Shanghai light source accelerator.[1][2] He served as deputy director of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics in June 2001, and nine years later promoted to the director position. In December 2018 he joined the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute and was appointed as vice-president. He has been director of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility since 2019. He is a researcher at the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Cryogenic & Superconducting RF Technology.[3]

Honours and awards

References
  1. Liu Yu (刘禹) (5 December 2019). 追“光”者——访中国工程院新院士赵振堂. Shanghai Association of Science and Technology (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  2. Shu Shu (舒抒) (10 August 2018). “上海光源”开放试运行9年，有力支撑国家实验室建设. eastday.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  3. 上海市低温超导高频腔技术重点实验室学术带头人. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Cryogenic & Superconducting RF Technology (in Chinese). 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  4. 中国工程院2019年当选院士名单 [List of Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019]. CAE (in Chinese). 22 November 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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