On April 19, 2024, the opening ceremony of the National Conference on Low Temperature Physics was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, at which the winners of the 7th Sir Martin Wood Science Prize for China was announced. Zhang Jinsong, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at Department of Physics of Tsinghua University, was awarded this honor.
The Sir Martin Wood China Prize for researchers in physical science was established by Oxford Instruments in 2013 and is awarded every two years, with 2-3 winners each year. This award aims to promote the scientific research achievements of young scientists in China under extremely low temperature, strong magnetic field or ultra-high vacuum environment. For most young researchers, they usually go through a difficult but extremely critical stage of their research career. Therefore, Oxford Instruments hopes to provide financial support to young scientists who have made innovative scientific research achievements in China, so as to promote their research work and career development.
Zhang Jinsong, born in 1985, obtained his bachelor's degree in 2008 and doctor's degree in science in 2014 both from the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. In 2017, he joined the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University and is now an associate professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Physics. Zhang Jinsong has been engaged in the transport research of low-dimensional quantum materials for a long time, focusing on the multi-field control of quantum physical properties in topological materials and two-dimensional layered materials, and has made important contributions to the experimental observation of quantum anomalous Hall effect.