I am a computational physicist and materials scientist. I am also broadly interested in plasma physics, climate science, applied math, and machine learning.
I have been an Assistant Professor in Physics at Boston College since August 2025. Previously, I was a Stanford Science Fellow, working with Prof. Thomas P. Devereaux. I obtained my Ph.D. in physics at Harvard with Prof. Efthimios Kaxiras.
Contact: ziyanzhu@stanford.edu / ziyan.zhu@bc.edu.
Bio
Boston College
Assistant Professor of Physics
Aug 2025 — current
Stanford University / SLAC
Stanford Science Fellow
Sep 2022 — Aug 2025
Harvard University
Ph.D. in Physics with a secondary field in Computational Science and Engineering
M.A. in Physics
Sep 2017 — May 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
B.Sc. in Physics and Applied Mathematics, Minor in Art History
Sep 2013 — Jun 2017