2016-09至2021-07, 北京师范大学，博士

2012-09至2016-07, 北京师范大学，本科

2021-07至今, 北京理工大学

1.新型二维原子晶体的制备与表征

2.低维功能纳米结构中新奇量子物态的探测与调控

3.先进纳米实验技术的开发与应用

长期从事在新型二维电子材料体系中构建、探测、调控新奇量子物态。2016年至今，以第一/通讯作者发表SCI论文20余篇，包括4篇Physical Review Letters、2篇Nano Letters、1篇Science Bulletin、6篇Physical Review B等。

代表性学术成果包括：

1.Baofei Hou#, Yu Zhang#*, Teng Zhang#, Jizheng Wu#,…, Chen Si*, Hong-Jun Gao, Yeliang Wang*, Multiple electronic phases coexisting under inhomogeneous strains in the correlated insulator. Adv. Sci. 10, 2300789 (2023).

2.Yaoyao Chen#, Yu Zhang#*,…, Ye-Liang Wang*, Visualization of macroscopic Ising superconducting state in superconductor-graphene junctions. Adv. Quantum Technol. 6, 2300087 (2023).

3.Liangguang Jia#, Fei Gao#, Yu Zhang#*,…, Yeliang Wang*, Colossal structural distortion and interlayer-coupling suppression in a van der Waals crystal induced by atomic vacancies. Nano Res. 16, 5715-5720 (2023).

4.Yu Zhang*,…, Lin He*. Atomic Valley Filter Effect Induced by an Individual Flower Defect in Graphene. Chin. Phys. Lett. 40, 096801 (2023). (Invited article)

5.Yu Zhang#*, Fei Gao#,…, Lin He*, Characterization and Manipulation of Intervalley Scattering Induced by an Individual Monovacancy in Graphene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 096402 (2022).

6.Quanzhen Zhang#, Yu Zhang#*,…, Yeliang Wang*, Nanoscale Control of One-Dimensional Confined States in Strongly Correlated Homojunctions. Nano Lett. 22, 1190-1197 (2022).

7.Quanzhen Zhang#, Jiahao Fan#, Teng Zhang#,…, Huaqing Huang*, Yu Zhang*, Wenhui Duan, and Yeliang Wang*, Visualization of edge modulated charge density wave orders in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide metal. Commun. Phys. 5, 117 (2022).

8.Qian Yang, Yu Zhang*,…, Lin He*, Creating custom-designed patterns of nanoscale graphene quantum dots. 2D Mater. 9, 021002 (2022).

9.Yu Zhang*,…, Yeliang Wang*, Recent advances of defect-induced spin and valley polarized states in graphene. Chin. Phys. B 31, 087301 (2022). (Invited review)

10.Liangguang Jia,…, Yu Zhang*, Yeliang Wang*, Research progress of two-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulator in monolayer 1T'-WTe2. Acta Phys. Sin., 71, 127308 (2022). (Invited review, in Chinese)

11.Yu Zhang*, Ying Su, Lin He*, Quantum Interferences of Pseudospin Mediated Atomic-Scale Vortices in Monolayer Graphene. Nano Lett. 21, 2526-2531 (2021).

12.Ya-Xin Zhao#, Xiao-Feng Zhou#, Yu Zhang#, Lin He*, Oscillations of the Spacing between van Hove Singularities Induced by sub-Ångstrom Fluctuations of Interlayer Spacing in Graphene Superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266801 (2021).

13.Yu Zhang#, Ying Su#, Lin He*, Local Berry phase signatures of bilayer graphene in intervalley quantum interference. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116804 (2020).

14.Yu Zhang#, Fei Gao#, Shiwu Gao*, Lin He*, Tunable magnetism of a single-carbon vacancy in graphene. Sci. Bull. 65, 194-200 (2020).

15.Yu Zhang#, Zhe Hou#,…, Qing-Feng Sun*, Lin He*, Correlation-induced valley splitting and orbital magnetism in a strain-induced zero-energy flatband in twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle. Phys. Rev. B 102, 081403(R) (2020).

16.Yu Zhang,…, Lin He*, Nanoscale probing of broken-symmetry states in graphene induced by individual atomic impurities. Phys. Rev. B 101, 155424 (2020).

17.Yu Zhang, Lin He*, Spin and pseudospin of graphene based on scanning tunneling microscopy. Physics Experimentation 11, 40 (2020). (Invited review, in Chinese).

18.Ya-Ning Ren#, Yu Zhang#, Yi-Wen Liu#, and Lin He*, Twistronics in graphene-based van der Waals structures. Chi. Phys. B 29, 117303 (2020). (Invited review).

19.Yu Zhang,…, Lin He*, Observation of phonon peaks and electron-phonon bound states in graphene. Phys. Rev. B 100, 075435 (2019).

20.Yu Zhang#, Xuelei Sui#,…, Lin He*, Spin-polarized semiconducting band structure of graphene monolayer on Ni(111). Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 054043 (2018).

21.Yu Zhang,…, Lin He*, High-resolution tunneling spectroscopy of ABA-stacked trilayer graphene. Phys. Rev. B 98, 045413 (2018).

22.Zhong-Qiu Fu#, Yu Zhang#,…, Lin He*, Spatial confinement, magnetic localization and their interactions on massless Dirac fermions. Phys. Rev. B 98, 241401(R) (2018).

23.Yu Zhang#, Si-Yu Li#,…, Lin He*, Scanning tunneling microscopy of π magnetism of a single atomic vacancy in graphene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166801 (2016).

24.Long-Jing Yin#, Yu Zhang#,…, Lin He*, Experimental observation of surface states and Landau levels bending in bilayer graphene. Phys. Rev. B 93, 125422 (2016).