Professor Zhongqin Yang

Professor Zhongqin Yang conducts researches in computational condensed matter physics. Her group employs theoretical modeling and first-principles numerical calculation methods to study the electronic states of novel materials, topological properties, spin–orbit coupling effects, and charge and spin quantum transport in nanoscale systems. Recently,  her group has achieved a series of results on topological electronic states in two-dimensional materials, such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect. By independently modifying and developing computational programs, her group has enabled the calculation of physical quantities characterizing topological effects like the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Using tight-binding and k·p models, her group has provided theoretical descriptions of electronic states in typical lattices and predicted several experimentally realizable new materials with topological insulating or semimetal properties, as well as proposed mechanisms for the emergence of many novel effects. She has published a series of research papers in leading international journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Nano Letters, and Physical Review B. She teaches courses including General Physics B, University Physics, Solid State Physics, Nanophysics, and New Insights in Physics. She also serves as Chief Editor (Second) of the 10th edition of the printed textbook Medical Physics and as Chief Editor of its digital edition. As a team leader, she has guided undergraduate students to win the Special Prize, First Prize, and Best Pro-Argument Award in the Shanghai Undergraduate Physicists’ Tournament (SUPT).

Zhongqin Yang received her B.S. degree in Physics from Nanjing University in 1994, her M.S. degree in Physics from Fudan University in 1997 under the supervision of Professor Zhizhong Xu, and her Ph.D. degree in Physics from Fudan University in 2000 under the supervision of Professor Xi-De Xie and Professor Ling Ye. She subsequently conducted postdoctoral research in Professor Haoqing Wu’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University and in Professor Massimiliano Di Ventra’s group in the Department of Physics at Virginia Tech. She became an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Fudan University in 2003, a Ph.D. supervisor in 2004, and a full Professor in 2008. From 2014 to 2022, she served as Associate Dean of the Department of Physics at Fudan University. Since 2015, she has been on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports. She has also served as a council member of the Computational Physics Society and as a committee member of the Computational Physics Division of the Shanghai Physical Society. In 2023, she was named Fudan University’s Top Ten Teachers. She won two National Teaching Achievement Awards (Second Prize).

She has studied or conducted long-term academic visits at institutions including Professor Mark Ratner’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University (USA), Professor Hong Guo’s group in the Department of Physics at McGill University (Canada), Professor Yu-Chang Chen’s group in the Department of Physics at National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy.