Dr Jin Zhang, PhD, FHEA, MIEEE, FRAS
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Microwave Electronics
Email: jin.zhang@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: E256, Engineering Building
Website: https://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jinz/
Profile
Dr Jin Zhang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in microwave electronics in School of EECS at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. He teaches in the Joint Programme (JP) between QMUL and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). His research interests include high-power microwave and millimetre wave with applications in fusion energy, as well as the applications of THz/optical spectroscopy in astrochemistry. His group is committed to the acceleration of commercial nuclear fusion energy by developing compact, cost-effective, and commercially scalable high-power microwave and millimetre-wave sources (magnetrons, etc.) capable of heating fusion plasmas to 100 million degrees Celsius - the temperature required for nuclear fusion to occur. He has a strong collaboration with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), particularly on the development of high-power millimetre-wave sources and superconducting quench-detection systems for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) project. He is passionate about connecting academia and industry to turn fusion from a scientific challenge into a commercial reality. He has also been working on laboratory studies on formation and evolution of prebiotic molecules in the universe by performing complementary novel laboratory experiments at larger facilities, including the free-electron laser FELIX Laboratory in the Netherlands, the synchrotron radiation source ASTRID in Denmark, etc.
Before working as a lecturer, he was a postdoctoral research assistant (PDRA) at QMUL and he worked on the high-power THz/millimetrer-wave source using pseudospark discharge hollow cathode, as well as THz/IR/UV spectroscopy in astrochemistry applications. He obtained PhD in Physical Electronics in 2019 from Southeast University (Nanjing, China), where he worked on the multi-physics analysis and reliability analysis of traveling wave tube (TWT), considering the backward wave oscillation. He obtained Bachelor of Engineering from Southeast University in 2011.
He is looking for talented and passionate PhD students and researchers in the fields including (but not limited to): high-power vacuum electron devices (microwave/mm-wave/THz sources and amplifiers, eg., magnetron, TWT, backward wave oscillator), microwave-enabled particle accelerators, superconducting magnets (quench detection using millimetre-wave and optical technologies), fusion energy (fusion plasma heating), THz/IR/UV spectroscopy (space organic molecule analysis) , and AI-assisted design and optimisation of microwave devices. If you are interested in these topics, please contact him with email (jin.zhang@qmul.ac.uk), and check his Linked page or his webiste for any opportunities.