Zhang Jie (; born January 31, 1958) is a Chinese

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

. He served as President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University from November 2006 to February 2017. He was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. He was elected to the

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

on March 28, 2007. He was elected as foreign associate of the US

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

in 2012.

Biography

Zhang Jie was born in 1958 in

Taiyuan Taiyuan (; ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; also known as (), ()) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. ...

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

, China. He received both his bachelor's degree and master's degree from

Inner Mongolia University Inner Mongolia University is a university in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, under the authority of the Inner Mongolia regional government. It is a member of the Chinese state Double First Class University Plan and former Project 211, and identified as ...

, and his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988. From 1988 to 1998, he was a visiting scholar at the

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ...

in Germany and at

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). It began as the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, merged with the Atlas ...

in the United Kingdom. In 1999, he returned to China and worked as a research scientist at the CAS. He was appointed head of Bureau of Fundamental Science at the CAS in 2003. On November 27, 2006, Zhang replaced

Xie Shengwu Xie Shengwu (; born November 22, 1943) is a Chinese physicist who served as President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1997 to 2006. Xie was born in Shaoxing Shaoxing (; ) is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou ...

as President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Zhang Jie has published more than 100 papers, 15 of which were in ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

'', '' Physical Review Letters'', and other journals with an impact factor above 7.2. He has received numerous awards. Zhang Jie is a member of the Board of Trustees of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Board of Trustees of KAUST
Zhang Jie was an alternate member of the 17th and 18th

CPC Central Committee The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is a political body that comprises the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is currently composed of 205 fu ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Jie 1958 births Living people Alternate members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shanxi Educators from Shanxi Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Inner Mongolia University alumni Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences People's Republic of China politicians from Shanxi Physicists from Shanxi Politicians from Taiyuan Presidents of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University TWAS laureates