Shujun Zhang

Shujun Zhang is a Distinguished Professor of the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Australia, prior to which, he was a senior scientist of the Materials Research Institute and Professor of the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has authored/co-authored over 500 technical papers (32,000 citations with H-index of 84 on Google Scholar) and holds 10 patents in the field of dielectric and piezoelectric materials. His research interests are focused on the fabrication-microstructure-property-application relationships of electronic materials for piezoelectric sensor, acoustic transducer, and energy storage/harvesting applications.

Prof. Zhang has received a number of awards from various societies, including Fellow of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S, 2021); Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2019); winner of the Ross Coffin Purdy Award at the American Ceramic Society (2020); the IEEE UFFC-S Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award (2011) and Ferroelectrics Recognition Award (2021); ARC Future Fellow (2015-2019); Top researcher in the field of Ceramic Engineering in Australia (2021); winner of one of the NSW Premier’s Prizes for Science & Engineering (2021) and VC Research Excellence Award (2022). He is the elected IEEE UFFC AdCom member (2016-2018) and VP for Ferroelectrics (IEEE UFFC-S, 2021-). He is the Associate Editor in Chief (EiC) for IEEE Transactions on UFFC, section EiC for Crystals, EiC for Microstructures, and Associate Editor for Science Bulletin and the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He is the symposium organizer for the Electronic Materials & Applications (ACerS, 2015-2022) and the general co-chair for the 2021 IEEE ISAF-ISIF-PFM.