Zhang Guang-Ming is the Academic Dean of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, and was Chair Professor of the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1991, and subsequently worked as a research associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy and Imperial College London. In 1997, he became a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University. From 2004 to 2024, he had been a professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, and had served as the Director of the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics at Tsinghua University and the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics.

His long-term research focuses on quantum many-body problems in condensed matter physics. He has proposed a new method for exactly solving the two-dimensional Kitaev quantum spin model, established a unified theory of fractional excitations in two-dimensional quantum systems, constructed universal classes of topological states in one-dimensional integer-spin chains, and developed quantum many-body theories for Kondo resonance and magnetic correlations in correlated electron systems. In collaboration with experimental groups, he discovered unconventional superconductivity under pressure in lanthanum-nickel oxide La₃Ni₂O₇ at liquid nitrogen temperatures, which was selected as one of the "Top Ten Scientific Advances in China in 2023" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He received the "Outstanding Young Scholar Award" from the Hong Kong Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation in 1999, the "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars" in 2001, was appointed as a "Changjiang Chair Professor" by the Ministry of Education in 2006, and won the "Ye Qisun Physics Prize" from the Chinese Physical Society in 2011.

• Novel quantum magnetic states and phase transitions in correlated many-body systems.

• Quantum entanglement, topological order and quantum topological phase transitions.

• Mechanisms of unconventional superconductivity and strange metal properties.

Sept.1981 – Sept. 1985, B. Sc. Degree in Applied Physics

Dept. of Physics, National University of Defense and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

Sept. 1985 – March 1991, Master and Ph. D. in Condensed Matter Physics

Dept. of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

March 1991 – Sept. 1992, Lecturer in Physics

Dept. of Physics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Sept. 1992 – Sept. 1994, Research FellowCondensed Matter Section, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

Sept. 1994 – Sept. 1997, Research AssociateDept. of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, U.K..

Nov. 1997 – March 2004, Professor in Condensed Matter Physics, 

Institute for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University, China.

April 2004 – Dec. 2025, Professor in Condensed Matter Section,

Dept. of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Aug. 2011, Yeh Chi-Sun Prize for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Physical Society.

Nov.2005, Cheung Kong Scholar Professorship appointed by Ministry of Education of China

Sept. 2001, “Grant for Outstanding Young Scientists” by National Science Foundation of China

Sept. 1999, ''Outstanding Young Scientists'' by Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation in HK.

Guang-Ming Zhang, Yue-Hua Su, Zhong-Yi Lu, Zheng-Yu Weng, Dung-Hai Lee, and Tao Xiang, Universal linear-temperature dependence of static magnetic susceptibility in iron pnictides, European Physical Letters 86, 37006 (2009).

Guang-Ming Zhang, Yi-feng Yang and Fu-Chun Zhang, Self-doped Mott insulator for parent compounds of nickelate superconductors, Physical Review B 101, R020501 (2020).

Hualei Sun, Mengwu Huo, Xunwu Hu, Jingyuan Li, Zengjia Liu, Yifeng Han, Lingyun Tang, Zhongquan Mao, Pengtao Yang, Bosen Wang, Jinguang Cheng, Dao-Xin Yao, Guang-Ming Zhang and Meng Wang, (共同通讯作者)，Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure, Nature 621, 493 (2023).

Xiao-Yong Feng, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Tao Xiang, Topological characterization of quantum phase transition in a spin-1/2 model, Physical Review Letters 98, 087204 (2007).                

Dung-Hai Lee, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Tao Xiang, Edge solitons of topological insulators and fractionalized quasiparticles in two dimensions, Physical Review Letters 99, 196805 (2007).