Heyou Zhang wins Chancellor's Prize
Exciton Science graduate Heyou Zhang has been awarded the University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize 2023 for Science and Engineering.
Heyou, who completed his PhD in 2022, received the prize for his thesis ‘Direct Assembly of Single Nanocrystal Arrays’.
A former member of the Nanoscience Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Paul Mulvaney, Heyou also completed his Msc at the University of Melbourne.
He is now a postdoctoral researcher with Exciton Science Associate Investigator Professor Jürgen Köhler at the University of Bayreuth.
Heyou’s close relationship with Exciton Science has continued, as he is contributing to Optical excitations in organic and inorganic semiconductors (OPTEXC), an International Research Training Group involving the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the University of Bayreuth.
Nominations for the Chancellor’s Prize are made by faculties on the basis of international recognition and impact of the research, publications or other research outputs that arise from or relate to a thesis, and recognition of the research (by professional organisations, prizes and awards and invitations to conferences.
Heyou’s thesis formed the basis of a paper, ‘A General Method for Direct Assembly of Single Nanocrystals’ published in the journal Advanced Optical Materials.
