Professor Zhenan Jiang received a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Chongqing University in Chongqing, China in 1994, and M.Eng., Ph.D. Eng. in applied superconductivity from Yokohama National University in Yokohama, Japan in 2002 and 2005, respectively.

He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yokohama National University from 2005 to 2008. He joined the Superconductivity Group currently known as the Robinson Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2008 as Research Scientist. He has a strong track record in characterization of high temperature superconductors (HTS), especially in AC loss and has published 160 SCI papers with an H index of 40. He is now Professor and Chief Scientist (Machines) in areas of AC loss in superconductors, superconducting rotating machines, HTS flux pumps, HTS bearings, Optical Fibre Sensors.

Prof. Jiang has been twice awarded the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) invitation fellowship to Kyoto University under the NZ-Japan Scientist Exchange Program, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. From 2021, he became an editorial board member of an Elsevier journal, Superconductivity (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/superconductivity). He was awarded the 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi’s Scott Medal for his work on measuring and modelling the response of superconductors (https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/medals-and-awards/research-h…).