Employments: 

Professor Yu-Min Zhao received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1995 from Nanjing University. After that, he stayed in the Physics School at Southeast University till 2004. From January 1998 to 2004, he had Science and Technology Agent (STA) fellow and Collaborating Researcher at RIKEN (Japan),  Japanese Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow at Saitama University (Japan), and visiting scientist at the Bartol Research Institute, University Delaware (USA). He has been a distinguished professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2013. 

He serves as a member of the Chinese Nuclear Physics Society since 2010, vice president of the Chinese Electrodynamics Association since 2022. 

The main research topics: 

(1) Many-body systems interacting by random interactions:  There are various robust features and behaviors exhibited by very different quantum many-body systems, some of them are not given by the details of the systems. He wishes to understand those simplicities from the complexities of many-body systems.  See his review in Physics Reports, Volume 400, 1 (2004). 

(2) Nucleon pair approximation of the shell model:  Atomic nuclei are most complicated systems, therefore one has to resort to theoretical models towards understanding nuclear structure. The shell model is the standard model for low-lying states, yet one has to further truncate the gigantic configuration space for most cases of medium and heavy nuclei. He has devoted extensively to one of efficient approaches of the truncations, called the nucleon pair approximation.  See his review in Physics Reports, Volume 545, 1 （2014). 

(3) Systematics of nuclear observables: The simplicities of complex nuclei leave us a number of short-cuts to understand and to predict various observables from simple perspectives.  Professor Zhao and his collaborators have made numerous efforts along this line. 

(4) Mathematical structure of the nuclear shell model: The nuclear shell model is a theoretical model of valence particles in given configuration space.  Professor Zhao and his collaborators have initiated and/or invented a number of interesting mathematical games involving of various couplings and recouplings, and configuration spaces of the nuclear shell model. 

     He published more than 120 articles in Physical Review C and Physical Review Letters (till 2023), see 

Physical Review Journals - Search (aps.org)

Physical Review Journals - Search (aps.org)

He published two review articles in Physics Reports, see below. 

Physics Reports | Vol 400, Issue 1, Pages 1-66 (October 2004) | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Physics Reports | Nucleon-pair approximation to the nuclear shell model | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

      He published a textbook of Electrodynamics in the Science Press of China (1st edition in 2016, 2nd edition in 2021). 

Electrodynamics since 2005; Nuclear Theory since 2007. 

He has been devoting to a very fat lecture note (more than 1100 pages now ... ..., with various detailed stuffs that he knows, deeply or shallowly) of nuclear theory, and wishes to publish this note as a book before his retirement in 2037.