Hi! I am Chenghao Zhang, I am currently a Ph.D. student at Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Martin Gruebele. I also benefit from collaboration with Prof. Peter Wolynes at Rice University.

As a physicist by training, I got my physics undergraduate degree from Peking University, Beijing, China. In my undergraduate study, I worked on nonequilibrium statistical physics and biophysics with Prof. Yuhai Tu and Prof. Qi Ouyang. Now I am working at the interface of chemistry and physics. I am interested at studying intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, quantum scrambling and quantum localization in complex chemical systems, and chemical dynamics in nonadiabatic systems and in condensed phase systems.

Projects

Some of projects I have worked on:

• Energy flow limited reactivity ( with Martin Gruebele and Edwin Sibert , JCP2021 )

• Quantum information scrambling in Molecules (with Martin Gruebele and Peter Wolynes , PRA2022)

• Surface crossing and energy flow in many-dimensional quantum systems (with Martin Gruebele , David E Logan and Peter Wolynes , PNAS2023 ) News

CV

You can find my CV here