Time:14:00-15:30, Wed., August 20, 2025

Venue:E10-304, Yungu Campus

Host:Dr. Yao Yang, Assistant Professor, Westlake University

Language:English

Speaker：

Jiangbo Zhao Lecturer

University of Hull

Biography:

Dr Jiangbo Zhao is currently a lecturer at the School of Engineering. He received his PhD degree from Macquarie University, Australia (in 2015), and then undertook post-doctoral trainings at the University of Adelaide, Australia (2015-17, 20-21), and at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT), Jena, Germany (2018-2019, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship). His work has led to 36 peer-reviewed journal articles (h-index 21, with citations > 4750), with representative achievements including breaking the bottleneck issue of“concentration quenching”, inventing a new, universal methodology for creating noble metal nanoparticles in glass for unique colours, identifying the shortcoming of the Einstein-Smoluchowski equation in accounting for light scattering, and developing new perturbation theory and new methodology for revamping the mixing rule, e.g., the successor to the Lorenz-Lorentz equation. He co-found a startup EZY-GLAS Technology during his short stint in Adelaide (20-21), underpinned by one of 3 international patents filed.

Abstract:

Colours we encounter in daily life harbour basic, complex physics. Understanding and juggling with colours against a media at different length scales (i.e., light-matter interaction) are fascinating in nature and can be consequential, within or beyond expectations. This talk will briefly touch on certain facets of it my research has been devoted to, with subjects of spanning from biomarkers, through coloured glass and smart window, nanoparticles tracking, to water (strictly speaking, bluish instead of transparent) and liquid mixtures.

Contact:

Yingyi Guo

guoyingyi@westlake.edu.cn