YIMEI ZHU
Adjunct Professor
Physics and Astronomy
zhu@bnl.gov | Brookhaven National Laboratory
Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2023 Apr 05)

Biography
Yimei Zhu is Senior Physicist and Group Leader at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from Nagoya University and worked as a Research Associate at University of Virginia. He joined BNL as Assistant Scientist in 1988, rising through the ranks to become Tenured Senior Physicist in 2002. Zhu has published 700 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered more than 300 invited talks at international conferences. He is elected Fellow of APS, MSA, AAAS, MRS and MAS.

Research Statement
My research interests focus on understanding nano-to-atomic scale phenomena and emerging behavior of strongly correlated electron systems and advanced electron microscopy. My research goals include investigation of charge, orbital, spin and lattice correlations and their dynamics, structure-property relationship as well as the roles of interfaces and defects in functional materials at ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolution. To achieve my goals and stay at the forefront of the field, I and my team emphasize advancing materials characterization tools, especially electron-microscopy-based instrumentation and methodology. My expertise on quantitative microscopy includes electron diffraction and crystallography, aberration corrected atomic imaging, energy-loss spectroscopy, electron holography, Lorentz microscopy, ultrafast electron microscopy and cryogenic in-situ microscopy in superconductors, multiferroics, topological 2D magnets, correlated quantum systems and energy materials.