Professor Qi Zhou honored with University Faculty Scholar award
2024-04-12
Qi Zhou, professor of Physics and Astronomy with the Purdue University College of Science, has been selected as a University Faculty Scholar by the Office of the Provost.
Zhou’s research interests include synthetic gauge fields for ultracold atoms, strongly interacting bosons and fermions, quantum nonequilibrium dynamics, and connections between few-body and many-body physics. Qi Zhou received his Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University and his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, China.
The University Faculty Scholars Program recognizes outstanding faculty members who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction. Recipients of this honor have the rank of tenured associate or full professor and have been in that rank for no more than five years. Faculty scholars are nominated by their academic areas, reviewed by a committee in the College of Science, and approved by the provost. Faculty Scholars are appointed for a five-year term and receive an annual $10,000 discretionary allocation to support their research. The program was created in 1998. Zhou will begin his five-year term on July 1, 2024.
In a letter of award recognition, Lucy Flesch, the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science, says, “the college awards committee recognized your outstanding contributions to synthetic gauge fields, universal relations in dilute quantum systems, and non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. Congratulations once again on this well-deserved honor. My best wishes to you for your continued success in your academic endeavors.”
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