Education:

2009/08 - 2015/07  University of Arkansas PhD

2005/08-2009/07 University of Science and Technology of China Bachelor

Work Experience：

2018/08 – current, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Research Assistant Professor

2015/08 – 2018/07 University of Delaware, USA Postdoc

Research Area：

Employing first principles methodology to investigate the electronic, magnetic and optical properties of emerging energy materials and complex oxides, and to assist the designs of novel functional materials

Publications：

1. Zhigang Gui, Lin-Wang Wang and L. Bellaiche,“Electronic properties of electrical vortices in ferroelectric nanocomposites from large-scale ab-initio computations”，Nano Lett. 15, 3224 ( 2015).
2. Zhigang Gui and L. Bellaiche, “Tuning and optimizing properties of ferroelectric films grown on a single substrate: A first-principles-based stud”，Phys. Rev. B 91, 020102(R) (2015).
3. Y. Nahas, S. Prokhorenko, L. Louis, Zhigang Gui, I. Kornev, L. Bellaiche, “Discovery of stable skyrmionic state in ferroelectric nanocomposites", Nature Communications 6 8542, (2015).
4. Zhigang Gui and L. Bellaiche, “Terahertz dynamics of ferroelectric vortices from first principles." Phys. Rev. B 89, 064303 (2014).
5. Zhigang Gui, S. Prosandeev and L. Bellaiche, “Properties of epitaxial (110) BaTiO3 films from first principles." Phys. Rev. B 84, 214112 ( 2011).