Academic Report: The Universe Full of Black Holes
Speaker: Zhang Shuangnan, PhD Instructor and Researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Time: 9:30 am on Friday, June 4, 2010
Venue: the South Meeting Room on the First Floor, Zutong Building
Speaker Profile:
Zhang Shuangnan is the PhD Instructor as well as the director of Particle Astrophysics Centre at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the director of Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1984, he got the Bachelor’s Degree in Tsinghua University; 1989, Ph.D in University of Southampton, UK; 1989-1992, Postdoctoral in University of Pennsylvania, USA. Since 1992, he has served as the senior scientist at Marshall Space Flight Center of U.S. NASA and the University Space Research Association as well as the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Alabama, USA (Hunts Virgin Campus). From 2002 to April, 2009, he was the Distinguished Professor in Tsinghua University and the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Astronomical Society. In 2007, he won “Zhao Jiuzhang Science Prizes for the Outstanding Young (Space Exploration Subject)”. In 2008, he was selected as the Yangtze Distinguished Professor by Chinese Ministry of Education. Now he is the chief scientist in the 973 project of “Black Hole & Other Compact Astrophysical Research”, of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.
A total of 170 articles are published in SCI papers including the papers as the first author in “Nature” of UK and “Science” of USA, which were cited over 3700 times and H-factor is 32. In 2006, he was invited to do the evening special report on “Similar Phenomena with Different Scales: the Sun, Supernova, Gamma Ray Bursts, Black Holes, Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies” at the annual meeting of International Astronomical Union General Assembly held in the Czech Republic.
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