About Pingwen Zhang’s work
Pingwen Zhang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University from September 1998 to January 1999. At the time, Zhang was based at Peking University.
Biography
Pingwen Zhang graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Peking University in 1988 and received his PhD from Peking University in 1992. Zhang has served as Assistant to the President, Vice President, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Peking University, and was appointed President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan University in 2022. He was elected as a member of the Department of Mathematical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Since 2018, he has served as the Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Analysis and Application Technology. Zhang's research focus is in the mathematical theory and computational methods of complex fluids. The relationship between models at different scales has developed a unified model that can describe complex phases and dynamics behaviour. In addition, he has made innovative contributions to mobile grid methods based on modulation and mapping, multi-scale algorithms and analysis.