Professor of Soft Matter Engineering

University of Birmingham

Biography

Dr Zhenyu Jason Zhang is a Professor of Soft Matter Engineering at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham. With twenty years’ research experience and expertise in investigating soft matter at surfaces and interfaces, he leads multiple large research programmes funded by UK Research & Innovation, EU Horizon Europe, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and forms strategic partnership with industrial collaborators including Procter & Gamble, Innospec, FiberLean Technologies. He has a broad interest in tribology, surface/molecular interactions, and polymer physics, and applies them in practical applications such as Formulated Products, Surface Coatings, Healthcare Technologies, and Food Engineering. He received the McBain Medal 2023 by Royal Society of Chemistry & Society of Chemical Industry in recognizing his accomplishment in colloids and interface research.