Yu Zhang

Yu received his undergraduate and then Masters degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2003. He completed his PhD and initial postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany, where he investigated surface magnetism until 2011. He subsequently joined the Department of Chemistry at University College London as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on electron and lattice dynamics on transition metal oxides by using multi-photon photoelectron spectroscopy.

Yu is a specialist in ultrafast laser photoelectron spectroscopy and low-dimensional quantum materials. Since joining Artemis in 2018, he has led the building and commissioning of a high-repetition rate extreme ultraviolet beamline, enabling advanced time-resolved and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. His current research explores spin dynamics and electron-lattice interactions at surfaces and interfaces of emerging quantum materials, with an emphasis on femtosecond-scale processes.