Li Zhu (朱黎)
Address
Physics Department, Rutgers University-Newark
Smith Hall, Room 504
101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102
E-mail: li.zhu@rutgers.edu / z@zhuli.name
Professional Experience
- Sep 2021 - present
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA - Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
- Research Scientist
Earth & Planets Lab, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC, USA - Dec 2015 - Jul 2020
- Postdoc
Geophysical Lab, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC, USA - Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
- Postdoc
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Education
- 2014 -- Ph.D. in Physics, State Key Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, China
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yanming Ma
- 2008 -- B.S. in Physics, Dept. of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China
Awards and Honors
- 2026, Rutgers–Newark IDRIS Undergraduate Research Grant (PI).
- 2026, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) New Directions Grant (PI).
- 2022, National Science Foundation Award (PI).
- 2021, Emerging Leaders, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (The Institute of Physics)
- 2020, DOE Basic Energy Science Award (Co-Investigator).
- 2019, Carnegie Science P2 Award.
- 2018, Carnegie Science Venture Research Award.
- 2012, Baosteel Excellent Scholarship.
Patent
- Timothy A. Strobel, Li Zhu, “Carbon-based clathrate compounds”, U.S. Provisional Patent App. 62/814,024 (2019)