Zenghu Chang

Zenghu Chang is a University Trustee Chair, Pegasus and Distinguished Professor of Physics and Optics at the University of Central Florida, where he directs the Institute for the Frontier of Attosecond Science and Technology. He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society and Optica.

Chang graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1982. He then earned a master’s and a doctorate at the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1985 and 1988 respectively. From 1991 to 1993, Chang visited the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory sponsored by the Royal Society fellowship. He worked at the University of Michigan after 1996. He then joined the physics faculty at Kansas State University in 2001, where he was later promoted to the Ernest & Lillian Chapin Professor. He moved to Orlando in 2010.

Dr. Chang has published more than 200 papers in the field of ultrafast high power lasers, ultrafast XUV/X-ray science and strong field AMO physics. His notable contributions include inventing the Double Optical Gating for the generation of single isolated attosecond pulses. His group first demonstrated high-order harmonic cutoff extension using long wavelength driving lasers in 2001. He is the author of the book “Fundamentals of Attosecond Optics.”