Professional Experience

• Jul 2020 - present
• Research Scientist, Earth & Planets Lab, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
• Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Rutgers University-Newark, USA
• Dec 2015 - Jul 2020
• Postdoc, Geophysical Lab, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
• Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
• Postdoc, Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

Education

• 2014 -- Ph.D. in Physics, State Key Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, China
• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yanming Ma
• 2008 -- B.S. in Physics, Dept. of Physics, Jilin University, China

Awards and Honors

2020, DOE Basic Energy Science Award (Co-Investigator).

2019, Carnegie Science P² Award.

2018, Carnegie Science Venture Research Award.

2015, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Jilin Province, China.

2013, National Scholarship for Graduate Students.

2013, Graduate Innovation Grant, Jilin University.

2012, Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship, Jilin University.

2012, Baosteel Excellent Scholarship.

2011, Outstanding Newcomer Award of Ministry of Education of China.

Patent

• Timothy A. Strobel, Li Zhu, “Carbon-based clathrate compounds”, U.S. Provisional Patent App. 62/814,024 (2019)

Services

Served as Reviewer for the following journals:

• Nature Communications
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS)
• Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)
• Chemistry of Materials
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• Chemical Communications
• New Journal of Physics
• The Journal of Physical Chemistry
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
• Dalton Transactions
• RSC Advances
• Scientific Reports
• Computational Materials Science
• Physics Letters A
• AIP Advances
• Chemical Physics Letters
• International Journal of Modern Physics B
• Journal of Alloys and Compounds
• Modern Physics Letters B
• Solid State Communications
• Journal of Nuclear Materials
• Phase Transitions
• Engineering