教育和工作经历

• 2022-至今　　华南理工大学，前沿软物质学院，准聘教授

• 2018-2022　　英国剑桥大学，卡文迪许实验室，博士后，欧盟玛丽·居里学者

• 2013-2018　　澳大利亚新南威尔士大学，光伏与可再生能源工程学院，博士

• 2009-2012　　澳大利亚国立大学，工程系，学士

获奖荣誉

• 2026　ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry: Future Leaders in Physical Chemistry

• 2019 　欧盟玛丽·居里学者基金（MSCA Individual Fellowship）

• 2014 　澳大利亚研究生奖学金（APA）

教学与科研情况

教学：Renewable Energy Technologies（全英课程），高分子物理实验  

科研：课题组以半导体量子点、有机分子等纳米材料为研究对象，设计制备新型复合材料与光电器件，利用超快瞬态光谱等技术探究其能量转移等物理机制，发展光子上 / 下转换材料及新型LED等光电器件，探索高效能量转化新原理与新体系。

近期代表论文

1. Yanhong Fan; Jia Luo; Ziqi Wang; Yanchao Zhao; Shuangke Wu; Yuqi Sun; Peng Zhang; Haoyu Song; Xianggui Zhou; Zhiqiang Hu; Jiajie Wu; Yaqi Gu; Lu Qiu; Zhuang Miao; Sanyang Han; Xing Jiang; Victor Gray; Jiajia Zhou; Akshay Rao*; Zhilong Zhang*; Remotely Tuned Triplet Transfer via Ligand Proximity in Quantum Dot – Organic Spectral Converters, ACS Nano, 2026, 20, 12, 9996–10011

2.  Jia Luo, Yanhong Fan, Yanchao Zhao, Jiajie Wu, Yaqi Gu, Haoyu Song, Hua Liang, Shuangke Wu, Zhuang Miao, Lu Qiu, Xing Jiang, Akshay Rao, Zhilong Zhang*; Alloyed Quantum Dots with Tuned Exciton Wave Function Delocalization for Enhanced Energy Transfer, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2026, 17(9): 2591-2600

3. Linyuan Lian; Daming Xiong; Yanhong Fan; Tao Liang; Ming Ai; Jibin Zhang; Mochen Jia; Ying Liu; Zhuangzhuang Ma; Xu Chen; Yanbing Han; Yongtao Tian; Xinjian Li; Zhilong Zhang*; Chongxin Shan; Zhifeng Shi*; Water‐Assisted Rapid Evaporation Synthesis of Transparent and Multicolor Luminescent Lanthanide‐Based Metal Halide Glasses for High‐Resolution X‐Ray Imaging, Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, e23727-e23727

4. Zhilong Zhang, Jooyoung Sung*, Daniel Toolan, Sanyang Han, Raj Pandya, Michael Weir, James Xiao, Simon Dowland, Mengxia Liu, Anthony J. Ryan, Richard A. L. Jones, Shujuan Huang and Akshay Rao*. Ultrafast Exciton Transport at Early Times in Quantum Dot Solids. Nature Materials, 2022, 21, 533–539

5. Zihan Chen, Yaohong Zhang, Zhi Li Teh, Jianfeng Yang, Lin Yuan, Gavin J. Conibeer, Robert J.Patterson, Qing Shen, Shujuan Huang*, Zhilong Zhang*. Passivating Quantum Dot Carrier Transport Layer with Metal Salts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 24, 28679–28688.

6. Mengxia Liu, Sachin Dev Verma, Zhilong Zhang, Jooyoung Sung*, and Akshay Rao*. Nonequilibrium Carrier Transport in Quantum Dot Heterostructures. Nano Letters, 2021, 21, 21, 8945–8951

7. Linjie Dai, Zeyu Deng, Florian Auras, Heather Goodwin, Zhilong Zhang, John Walmsley, Paul Bristowe, Felix Deschler, Neil Greenham*. Slow Carrier Relaxation in Tin-based Perovskite Nanocrystals. Nature Photonics, 2021, 15, 696–702

8. Zhilong Zhang, Zihan Chen, Lin Yuan, Weijian Chen, Jianfeng Yang, Xiaoming Wen, Jianbing Zhang, Long Hu, John A. Stride, Gavin J. Conibeer, Robert J. Patterson, and Shujuan Huang*. A New Passivation Route Leading to over 8% Efficient PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cells via Direct Ion Exchange with Perovskite Nanocrystals. Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1703214

9. Zhilong Zhang, Zihan Chen, Jianbing Zhang, Weijian Chen, Jianfeng Yang, Xiaoming Wen, Bo Wang, Naoya Kobamoto, Lin Yuan, John A. Stride, Gavin J. Conibeer, Robert J. Patterson and Shujuan Huang*. Significant Improvement in the Performance of PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cell by Introducing a CsPbBr3 Perovskite Colloidal Nanocrystal Back Layer. Advanced Energy Materials, 2017, 7, 1601773

10. Zihan Chen#, Zhilong Zhang#, Jianfeng Yang, Weijian Chen, Zhi Li Teh, Dian Wang, Lin Yuan, Jianbing Zhang, John A. Stride, Gavin J. Conibeer, Robert J. Patterson* and Shujuan Huang*. Improving Carrier Extraction In a PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cell by Introducing a Solution-Processed Antimony-Doped SnO2 Buffer Layer. The Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2018, 6, 9861-9866

欢迎物理、材料、化学等相关专业，以及对新能源、光物理、光电器件有兴趣的同学加入团队。