Functional Dielectrics: Polarization and Charge Transport Behavior

Jia-wei Zhang was born in Ningxia, China in 1982. He received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering in 2008. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2012 from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the L’Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA De Lyon), France. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi” of the University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università Di Bologna), Italy. In 2015 and 2016, he was an invited research fellow at Fukuoka University, Japan. In 2018 and 2019, he was an invited professor at Heidelberg University and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Germany. He was awarded by the international exchange program of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) of Germany. At present, he works as a professor at Xi’an University of Technology. His research interests include aging and insulation failure risk in renewable energy system and the sensor for the smart grid based on functional dielectrics.