张伟教授，国家级特聘教授

材料创新设计中心 主任

Center for Alloy Innovation and Design (CAID)

材料创新设计研究中心

State Key Laboratory For Mechanical Behavior of Materials

金属材料强度国家重点实验室

School of Materials Science and Engineering

材料科学与工程学院

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China

西安交通大学, 西安, 710049, 中国

联系邮箱：wzhang0@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

张伟，西安交通大学材料科学与工程学院教授，国家级特聘教授。曾在浙江大学取得学士、硕士学位，在德国亚琛工业大学取得博士学位并从事博士后研究。专注于新式相变存储材料与器件研发，在材料设计、结晶机理、电阻漂移以及材料晶圆级制备等方面取得重要进展。发表学术论文100余篇，授权发明专利10余项。2026年荣获相变存储领域最高奖项，奥弗辛斯基讲座奖。该奖项旨在表彰其在“借助大尺度计算模拟实现具有特定性能的新型相变材料设计与研发方面作出的奠基性贡献，其中包括实现器件尺度的高精度计算模拟”。

Prof. Wei Zhang's research interests cover phase-change materials for non-volatile memory and neuro-inspired computing, materials desgin and synthesis, large-scale ab initio calculations, machine-learning potentials, electronic and optical properties of chalcogenides as well as phase transitions in complex material systems.  Prof. Zhang is the winner of Ovshinsky Lectureship Award 2026:  in recognition of his fundamental contribution to designing new phase-change materials with desired properties by large scale simulations, including accurate computer simulations on a device-scale level.

Selected publications: 

1. Wei Zhang, A. Thiess, P. Zalden, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, J.-Y. Raty, M. Wuttig*, S. Blügel and R. Mazzarello*, Role of vacancies in metal-insulator transitions of crystalline phase-change materials, Nature Materials 11, 952-956 (2012).

2. F. Rao*, K. Y. Ding, Y.-X. Zhou, Y. H. Zheng, M. J. Xia, S. L. Lv, Z. T. Song*, S. L. Feng, I. Ronneberger, R. Mazzarello, Wei Zhang* and E. Ma, Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing, Science 358, 1423-1427 (2017). 

3. Wei Zhang* and E. Ma*, Phase-change memory: Single-element glass to record data, Nature Materials 17, 654-655 (2018).

4. K. Ding, J.-J. Wang, Y.-X. Zhou, H. Tian, L. Lu, R. Mazzarello, C. Jia, Wei Zhang*, F. Rao* and E. Ma*, Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation, Science 366, 210-215 (2019).

5. F. Rao*, Wei Zhang* and E. Ma*, Catching structural transitions in liquids, Science 364, 1032-1033 (2019).

6. Wei Zhang*, R. Mazzarello, M. Wuttig and E. Ma, Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing, Nature Reviews Materials 4, 150-168 (2019).

7. X. Fu, X.-D. Wang, B. Zhao, Q. Zhang, S. Sun, J.-J. Wang, Wei Zhang*, L. Gu, Y. Zhang, W.-Z. Zhang, W. Wen, Z. Zhang, L.-q. Chen*, Q. Yu* and E. Ma*, Atomic-scale observation of non-classical nucleation-mediated phase transformation in a titanium alloy, Nature Materials 21, 290–296 (2022).

8. Y.-X. Zhou, Wei Zhang*, E. Ma and V. L. Deringer*, Device-scale atomistic modelling of phase-change memory materials, Nature Electronics 6, 746-754 (2023).

9. X.-Z. Wang, R. Wang, S. Sun, D. Xu, C. Nie, Z. Zhou, C. Wen, J. Zhang, R. Chu, X. Shen, W. Zhou, Z. Song, J.-J. Wang*, En Ma* and Wei Zhang*, Amorphous phase-change memory alloy with no resistance drift, Nature Materials 25, 456-462 (2026). 

10. J.-J. Wang*, Wei Zhang*, Phase-change materials: Unravel the complexity, Nature Materials 25, 545-546 (2026).