John Zhang

John Zhang is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at NYU. Additionally, he is Director Emeritus of the NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry and a Global Network Professor at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a PhD from the University of Houston and a BS from East China Normal University.

Zhang’s current research focus is the development and application of novel computational methods for accurate and efficient study of biological systems. He develops quantum and classical methods, including new polarized force field to accurately predict protein structure, free energy in protein-drug and protein-protein bindings, and conformational dynamics of membrane proteins, structure, and dynamics of metalloproteins, etc.

Zhang has won many awards and fellowships, including the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1990), the National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship (1994), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1995), and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1995). 

Education

• PhD, Chemical Physics
  University of Houston