Trinity College Dublin

diaoz
append @tcd.ie

Home: Shenzhen, P. R. China

Position: Postgraduate Student

Education: B.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua Uni, Beijing

Specialties: Scanning Probe techniques / electron beam lithography

Current Projects: Magnetic nanostructures / Fluctuation measurement

Activities/Interests: Modern Chinese poetry (haven't read any in the last two years), traveling, photography, crime fictions, a big Mac fan, and looking for the missing snowboard.

Favourite Pub: The Vat house

Favourtie movie: Suzhou He (Suzhou River)

Brief Bio:
Zhu moved to Shenzhen, a small village then in the very south of China, with his parents at the age of five. He grew up with the city, which has a population of twelve million nowadays (three times of the population of Rep. Ireland). He was in the Shenzhen Experimental School (Shenzhen Shiyan Xuexiao) for twelve years of his pre-university education, where he had all his beautiful childhood memory, and where most importantly he came across his ragdoll. Then he decided to trace back the footsteps of his parents and went back to Beijing for his undergraduate studies in the frog university. After having four years of reading novels, poetry, and having cheap beer and brochette in the dirty restaurants right outside the north gate of the university (he did try to write a few short articles on Thomas Kuhn, Foucault and some other useless topics in between), he realized that he wanted to do something more practical. So he packed up all his belongings (twenty cases of books), sending them back home, and took the long trip to Dublin in 2004. This is where he started enjoying whiskey and getting used to the Irish time. One secret is that he still seems to enjoy being a PhD student and there is not a single word written in his thesis.

Publications:

A. Prina-Mello, Z. Diao, and J.M.D. Coey, Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 4 (2006) 1, 11.

P. Qin, J.Z. Zhang, and Z. Diao, Physica B 352 (2004) 127.