Research Assistant Professor Ze-Yu Jiang
Materials and Energy
- Office Location
- Room B417
- Telephone
- 86-10-56981836
- jiangzy[at]csrc.ac.cn
- Education
PhD, 2014 ~ 2019: Physics, Tsinghua University, China
BS, 2010 ~ 2014: Physics, Nanjing University, China
- Professional Employment
Research Assistant Professor, 2025.06 ~ Now
Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China
Visiting Scholar, 2025.01 ~ 2025.05
Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2023 ~ 2024:
Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Postdoc, 2019 ~ 2023:
Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Research Interests
Computational condensed matter physics; Density functional theory
Low-dimensional systems
Surface and Interface physics
Optics and Excited States
Excitonic physics
Polarons and Defects
- Awards/Honors
Tsinghua Future Scholars Scholarship (2014)
National Scholarship for Graduate students (2017)
Excellent Doctoral Graduate of Tsinghua University (2019)
Excellent Doctoral Thesis of Tsinghua University (2019)
Yu-Hsun Woo Prize, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University (2019)
- Representative Publications
- 1. Zeyu Jiang#, Damien West, Shengbai Zhang, “Bond Dipole-based Geometric Theory of Band Alignment”, Appl. Phys. Rev. 12, 011411 (2025).
- 2. Zeyu Jiang#, Yuanchang Li, Wenhui Duan, Shengbai Zhang, “Spin-triplet excitonic insulator: The case of semihydrogenated graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 166401 (2020)
- 3. Zeyu Jiang#, Zhirong Liu, Yuanchang Li, and Wenhui Duan, “Scaling universality between band gap and exciton binding energy of two-dimensional semiconductors”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 266401 (2017)
- 4. Zeyu Jiang#, Damien West, and Shengbai Zhang, “Simple and accurate estimation of metal, semiconductor, and insulator work functions”, Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 015001 (2023).
- 5. Zeyu Jiang#, Yuanchang Li, Wenhui Duan, Shengbai Zhang, “Half-excitonic insulator: A single-spin Bose-Einstein condensate”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 236402 (2019)
- 6. Zeyu Jiang#, Yuanchang Li, Shengbai Zhang, and Wenhui Duan, “Realizing an intrinsic excitonic insulator by decoupling exciton binding energy from the minimum band gap”, Phys. Rev. B 98, 081408 (2018)
