Associate Professor of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University

YOSIA——Fan Zhang

2014– present  Associate Professor of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University

2014– present  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics, West Virginia University

2013–2014  Post-doctoral Research Associate, West Virginia University

2005–2008  Desk (quant) and Sales (client facing) Strategist, Goldman Sachs International, London


Grants:

University of Tokyo ICRR Inter-University  Research Program

Interdiscipline Research Funds of Beijing Normal University  co-Investigator

National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 11633001  co-Investigator

Chinese Academy of Sciences Pilot Project B – Preliminary Research on FAST Pulsar Survey   co-Investigator

National Science Foundation (US) PIRE Award  China Partner Researcher

National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 11503003  Principal Investigator

National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 11443008  Principal Investigator

The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities No. 2015KJJCB06  Principal Investigator

Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars Foundation grant  Principal Investigator

FAST973 Project Dark Matter Cosmology subtopic  co-Investigator

National Science Foundation (US) No. 1068881  co-Investigator

Sherman Fairchild Foundation grant  co-Investigator


Academic Services and Professional Memberships:

- Referee for Physical Review D, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Science China: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, and the

National Natural Science Foundation of China

- Local organizing committee member for “The Next Detectors for Gravitational Wave Astronomy” workshop at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, and the 2016 Beijing Gravitational-wave Workshop

- Co-organizer of the 36th Future Forum Future Lecture

- Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector collaboration member, American Physical Society member, International Astronomical Union member, Cambridge Overseas Society fellow, Future Forum Young Scientist Innovation Alliance member and executive committee member, Future Forum Outreach Program Committee member

- Deputy Director of the Gravitational Wave and Cosmology Laboratory, within BNU Department of Astronomy