Dr. Zhang Fucai is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the group leader of the Shenzhen Free Electron Laser (S3FEL) Spectroscopy and Coherent Imaging (SCI) Station, and a senior member of OPTICA and IEEE. He has long been dedicated to research in computational imaging, coherent diffraction imaging, and holography. As one of the early scholars to conduct research on Ptychography, he has established a strong theoretical foundation and extensive experimental experience in this field. The coherent modulation imaging technology, independently proposed by him, effectively addresses the key scientific problem of non-uniqueness in traditional phase retrieval, significantly improving the performance of coherent diffraction imaging and expanding its application scope. Currently, he is committed to implementing these novel technologies in newly built large-scale light-source facilities in China (synchrotron X-ray facilities HEPS and HALF, and free-electron X-ray lasers SHINE) and electron microscopes, aiming to provide reliable characterization tools for scientists in biology and materials science. He has published some well-recognized papers in prestigious journals, including Light: Science & Applications, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters.

• Computational imaging methodology

• Synchrotron X-ray imaging techniques

• Ultrafast spectra-imaging; Optical metrology

• Digital holography

• High resolution electron microscopy

• Characterization of ultrashort optical pulses;

Ph.D., Gunma University, Japan, 09/2004

M.S., North China Electric Power University, 07/1997

B.S., North China Electric Power Institute, 07/1994

Mar. 2017 – Present, Associate Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China

Sept. 2011 – Feb. 2017, Senior Research Associate, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, United Kingdom

Nov. 2007 – Sept. 2011, Research Associate, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Oct. 2004 – Oct. 2007, Staff Scientist, Institute for Applied Optics, Stuttgart University, Germany

Apr. 1998 – Oct. 2000, Lecturer, North China Electric Power University, China

Sept. 1994 – Mar. 1998, Teaching assistant, North China Electric Power Institute, China 

Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (Level B), Peacock Plan, 2018-2022, Shenzhen, China

[1] Sheng P. and Zhang F.*, "Serial coherent diffraction imaging of dynamic samples based on inter-frame continuity," Light: Science & Applications 14, 230 (2025), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-025-01860-8 .

[2] Lin H., Niu J., Li K., Sheng P., Lin A., You J., Li J., Zhang X., and Zhang F.*, "Ultra-broadband ptychography for dispersive samples," Nature Commun. 16, 5714 (2025), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61339-3 .

[3] Zhang F.*, Chen B., Graeme M., Comamala J. V., Guizar-Sicairos M., Robinson I., “Phase retrieval by Coherent Modulation Imaging”, Nature Commun. 7:13367 (2016), https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13367 .

[4] Zhao J., Bellec E., Richard M.-I., Pithan L., Vartanyants I. A., Zhang F., Schülli T., and Leake S. J., "Bragg coherent modulation imaging of highly strained nanocrystals," Phys. Rev. Lett., 135, 256101 (2025), https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/8vrs-hjqm .

[5] Zhang F. *, Pedrini G., Osten W. “Phase retrieval of arbitrary complex-valued fields through aperture plane modulation”, Phys. Rev. A. 75, 043805 (2007), https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.043805 .