Zisheng Zhang
At the intersection of catalysis, material science, and theoretical chemistry
Greetings! I am Zisheng Zhang (張 孜晟), an incoming Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, starting in Fall 2026.
Currently, I am a Stanford Energy Fellow conducting semi-independent postdoctoral research at the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, hosted by Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen and Prof. Thomas Jaramillo.
As a computational chemist, my research aims to understand chemical complexities in emerging catalytic surfaces, electrochemical interfaces, and functional molecules. I develop, maintain, and leverage a computational arsenal of statistical mechanics, quantum chemistry, machine learning, and agentic AI methods.
Prior to Stanford, I completed my MSc & PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with Prof. Anastassia N. Alexandrova, and held a research internship at Argonne National Laboratory with Dr. Maria Chan. I received undergraduate training in both experiment and theory at South University of Science and Technology of China with Prof. Yongye Liang and Prof. Jun Li,
Trivia: I am a alumnus of the late UCLA-CSST undergraduate fellow program. I did my PhD study remotely from Austin, Texas. I love birding, UrbEx, and ghost towns. I plan to make xkcd-style TOC graphics for all publications I lead in the future, and proposals if possible.
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| Oct 27, 2024 | Zisheng will present 1 poster and 6 talks at AIChE! |