Professor Zhang, Li

Biography

Li Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) and an associate faculty member in Biomedical Engineering (BME) Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China, in 2000, the M.S. degree from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 2007. From 2002 to 2006, he was with the Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology (LMN), Paul Scherrer Institute, and also with the Department of Physics at the University of Basel. He joined the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland as a postdoctoral fellow in 2007, and as a senior scientist from 2009 to 2012. He then joined CUHK in 2012. His main research interests include micro-/nanorobotics and their biomedical applications, and nanomaterials for energy storage and environmental applications. Dr. Zhang is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ASME, IEEE RAS, MRS and ACS. Since 2004 he has authored and co-authored over 100 journal papers/conference proceedings/book chapters,and several of his journal papers have been indexed as ISI highly cited papers. He has an H-index over 30 based on Google Scholar Citations. He currently serves as an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (NPG), an Associate Editor of Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (Springer) and International Journal of Advanced Robotic System (SAGE Publishing), and he was a leading Guest Editor of Nanoscale (RSC Publishing) and Robotics and Biomimetics (Springer). He also serves as a peer reviewer for Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Science Robotics, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, JACS, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Energy, IEEE/ASEM JMEMS, IEEE T-Ro, IEEE T-ASE, IEEE T-MECH, IJRR, etc.  

Research Interest

Micromachines and nanorobots: develop remote-controlled functional micromachines and nanorobots for biomedical applications; develop micro- and nanorobotic platforms for on-demand robotic tasks. Micro- and nanotechnology: bridge micro-/nanotechnology and new materials with robotics at small scales; micro-/nanofabrication techniques and self-assembly. Functional nanomaterials: design, synthesize and characterization of nanomaterials for energy storage and green environment.