Zhen Zhan

Zhen Zhan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at IMDEA Nanoscience since January 2023. She holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2017) and previously worked at Wuhan University, China, where she studied electronic properties of two-dimensional materials and contributed to the development of the home-made tight-binding simulator TBPLaS.

• Education: PhD in Electronic Engineering (2017, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Research Interests:

• Theoretical modeling of van der Waals heterostructures
• Electronic properties of two-dimensional materials
• Flat band engineering via twistronics and strain
• Development of tight-binding propagation methods (TBPM)
• Quantum transport in low-dimensional systems
• Lattice relaxation and substrate effects

Recent Publications focus on:

• Tuning flat bands in twisted trilayer graphene and MoS2
• Designing moiré patterns through patterned dielectrics/strain
• Investigating correlated phenomena in magic-angle systems
• Advancing large-scale tight-binding simulation techniques

Scientific Recognition:

• IDEAL Fellowship (Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND, Grant Agreement ID 101034431)

Collaborative Projects include secondments at MIT, USA, to bridge theoretical modeling with experimental superconductivity studies in two-dimensional heterostructures.