Zhen Is Most Recent Elliman Faculty Fellow

Bo Zhen has joined Penn Arts and Sciences as Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Elliman Faculty Fellow. A scholar of nanophotonics, non-Hermitian physics, and topological photonics, Zhen earned his B.S. at Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Presidential Fellowship and was a finalist for the APS Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award. Before coming to Penn, he held a joint postdoctoral fellowship in the Physics Department at MIT and Technion, studying how to control light with nanoscopic structures and invent and design new optoelectronic devices for various applications. Zhen recently received a 2018 Air Force's Young Investigator Program Award.

The Elliman Faculty Fellows are being funded by a generous gift from former Penn Arts and Sciences Overseer David D. Elliman, C’73, WG’77, and his wife, Dr. Andrea Branch, through the Bawd Foundation. Mr. Elliman, who has been an advisor to many of the School’s other innovative science initiatives, including the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management, is greatly interested in energy and other areas of scientific research. A former biology major, he is the founding principal of the Elmrock Group of investment companies and is a board member of the Jackson Laboratory and Urban Electric Power, an early-stage energy storage company.