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Professor Named 2013 Guggenheim Fellow

April 16, 2013

Professor Named 2013 Guggenheim Fellow

Dongping Zhong, the Robert Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is one of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists from the United States and Canada awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellows are appointed based on prior achievement and exceptional promise. This year’s Fellows were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants. Zhong studies biological dynamics imaging in space and time by four-dimensional electron microscopy.
 
Zhong’s $40,000 grant will help support travel along with teaching-release time to work in another institute for further developing/expanding his mid-career stage research.
 
“The award is prestigious and not many people in the natural sciences receive it,” Zhong said. “The great thing is that it will allow me to work and learn in any another institute for six to eight months to expand my research scope or open new research directions in the near future.”    
 
Zhong received a BS in laser physics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) and PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
 
He received Caltech’s Herbert Newby McCoy Award and the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize for his doctoral work. He continued postdoctoral research in the same group, focusing on protein dynamics.
 
Zhong came to Ohio State in 2002. He has been named a Packard Fellow, Sloan Fellow, and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He holds a named professorship in physics and is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award.
 
Zhong’s research interests include biomolecular interactions and ultrafast protein dynamics. Research in his lab is directed towards understanding the nature of elementary processes in biological systems.
 
“We relate dynamics and structures to functions at the most fundamental level with state-of-the-art femtosecond lasers and molecular biology methods,” Zhong said.
 
“Our laboratory ultimately will have the capability of time resolution from femtosecond to millisecond (second); biological systems can be prepared and studied at the single molecule level.”
 
 

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