Education

Jian-Min Zuo graduated from Nanjing University, China, with a degree in Physics in 1983. In 1984, he came to US through the CUSPEA program organized by Prof. T.D. Lee to train young chinese physicists in US. He studied under the guidance of Prof. John Spence of Arizona State University in solid state physics in 1989. He then took a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Science Foundation center for high resolution electron microscopy and the Physics department at ASU. During this time he co-authored a book on electron microdiffraction with John Spence. Prior to joining the faculty of UIUC, He was a research scientist in Physics at ASU and a visiting scientist to a number of universities and institutes in Germany, Japan and Norway.

Awards

His honor includes the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) postdoctoral fellowship and the CC Wang fellowship of China. Zuo is the recipient of the 2001 Burton Award of the Microscopy Society of America and NSF career award in 2005. More recently, he received the China NSF award for talented oversea professional and was an invited professor of University of Lille, France.

Service

Zuo represented the Microscopic Society of America in the U.S. National Committee for Crystallography from 2003 to 2005. He is currently a member of electron diffraction comission of IUCr. He is also the organizer of a number of symposiums at different meetings and special electron diffraction schools.