1964-1968 Tsinghua University BD
1978-1981 Tsinghua University MD
1981-1984 Tsinghua University Ph.D
1985–1986 | Conducted postdoctoral research at the Postdoctoral Research Station of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
1986 | conducted collaborative research at Freie Universität Berlin. |
1988 | Returned to China and began working at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
1989 | Appointed Associate Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
1992 | Appointed (Full) Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
1997 | Elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . |
1998–2007 | Served as Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
2003 | Elected Academician of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) . |
Jun 2009 | Appointed Dean of the School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. |
Sep 2020 | Appointed Chair of the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China. |
2022-present | Academic Leader, Oujiang Lab |
Academician Zhongcan Ouyang has made outstanding contributions in several important fields, including soft condensed matter physics and statistical physics. He has been invited to deliver reports at numerous international conferences, such as the 21st IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics and Biomembrane Days 2019. He has published over 100 papers in internationally renowned journals, authored one English monograph (with a supplemented Chinese version), and published one popular science booklet, all of which have been well received by readers. His major scientific achievements include:
1.Deriving the shape equation for liquid film vesicles and obtaining an analytical solution identical to the biconcave shape of red blood cells, thereby resolving a long-standing puzzle in physiology .
2.Proposing a theory (extended in 1998) to describe the helical structure of chiral bilayers, which aligns well with experimental observations .
3.Developing a theory for the domain formation of Smectic-A liquid crystals (SmA), addressing the variation in SmA curvature elastic energy and revealing the formation mechanism of focal conic domains (FCD). By drawing an analogy with SmA theory, he successfully explained the helical phenomenon in multi-walled carbon nanotubes .
4.Proposing the statistical elasticity theory for double-stranded DNA molecules and the hairpin-helix transition mechanism for single-stranded DNA/RNA .
5.Collaborating with an experimental group in the United States to calculate the elastic modulus of wafl DNA (a response element of the p53 regulatory protein), finding it to be only one-third of that of random-sequence DNA. This result revealed the mechanism behind p53's tumor-suppressing activity
1993 | Received the inaugural Asian Outstanding Achievement Award for Chinese Physicists from the Overseas Chinese Physics Association. |
1994 | Awarded the inaugural China Postdoctoral "Guoshi Award". |
1995 | Received the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Natural Science First Class Prize. |
1996 | Recognized as a Middle-aged and Young Expert with Outstanding Contributions by the Ministry of Personnel. |
1997 | Elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
1999 | Received the Zhou Peiyuan Award. |
1999 | Awarded the National Natural Science Second Class Prize. |
2003 | Elected Academician of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). |
2004 | Received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for Scientific and Technological Progress. |
2015 | Elected International Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. |
Y. G. Shu and Z. C. Ou-Yang, Manipulated deformation of lipid bilayer vesicles in magnetic fields, Liquid Crystals, 2023, Doi:10.1080/02678292.2022.2154866.
M. Iwamoto and Z. C. Ou-Yang, Shape Deformation and Circle Instability in Two-Dimensional Lipid Domains by Dipolar Force: A Shape- and Size-Dependent Line Tension Model, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93(2004),206101.
Z. C. Ou-Yang, Z. B. Su and C. L. Wang, Coil Formation in Multishell Carbon Nanotubes: Competition between Curvature Elasticity and Interlayer Adhesion, Phys. Rev. Lett., 78(1997)4055-4058.
Z. C. Ou-Yang, Anchor ring-vesicle membranes, Phys. Rev. A., 41(1990)4517-4520.
Z. C. Ou-Yang and W. Helfrich, Instability and Deformation of a Spherical Vesicle by Pressure, Phys. Rev. Lett., 59(1987)2486-2488.
