Shoucheng Zhang

Shoucheng Zhang is the JG Jackson and CJ Wood Professor of Physics at Stanford University and serves as Co-director of the IBM-Stanford Center for Spintronics Science and Application Center. Earning his PhD in Physics from SUNY Stony Brook, he built foundational expertise as a condensed matter theorist whose work emphasizes symmetry arguments and a strong experimental focus. Zhang has secured multiple prestigious accolades, including a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 Europhysics Prize, the 2012 Oliver Buckley Prize, and the 2012 Dirac Medal. He was recognized as a Nobel-class Citation Laureate in 2014 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. As a Fellow of the American Physical Society, his research centers on advancing the study of topological insulators, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and high-temperature superconductivity.