Yuanbo Zhang is a condensed matter physicist and a professor of physics at Fudan University.
He is known for his work on the electronic properties of low-dimensional systems.
[1] He studied physics at Peking University and earned his bachelor's degree in 2000, and a doctorate at Columbia University in 2006 under the supervision of Philip Kim, they work on graphene almost at the same time with Geim and Novoselov.
[2][3] Zhang worked at the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Research Fellow until 2009,[4] when he joined the faculty at Fudan University.
[5] Zhang won the IUPAP(International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) Young Scientist Prize (C8), in 2010.