个人简历

1997年获四川大学水利水电工程系学士学位，2000年获浙江大学物理系硕士学位，2003年获清华大学物理系博士学位，2003－2005年清华大学高等研究中心博士后， 2005起先后在明尼苏达大学化工材料系和南加州大学化工材料系博士后，用第一性原理计算研究材料在高温高压下的物性。

研究领域

主要从事高温高压材料物性的第一性原理计算。近年来系统的研究了地幔主要成分的状态方程以及温度、压强、相变和铁的自旋转变等因素对矿物热力学、弹性性质的影响；探讨这些结果对认识地球深部组分、温度和动力学结构的意义；发展了一个第一性计算非谐自由能的方法，显著扩展了计算所得热力学性质的适用温度范围；发展了一个计算高温弹性特性的新方法，其所需的计算量不到常规方法的十分之一，利用该方法系统研究了地幔众多重要矿物的弹性特性""

近期论文

2013
Wu Z., Justo J. F., Wentzcovitch R., “Elastic Anomalies in a Spin-Crossover System: Ferropericlase at Lower Mantle Condition”, Physical Review Letters, 110, 228501 (2013).
Huang F., Chen L., Wu, Z., Wang W., “First-principles calculations of equilibrium Mg isotope fractionations between garnet, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, and olivine: implications for Mg isotope thermometry”, Earth and Planet Science Letters,367 61-70,2013
Valdez, M.,Wu, Z., Yu, Y., Wentzcovitch, R.“Thermal elasticity of (Fex,Mg1-x)2SiO4 olivine and wadsleyite”, Geophysical research letters, 40 290-294,2013
2012
Valdez, M.,Wu, Z., Yu, Y., Revenaugh, J., Wentzcovitch, R.“Thermoelastic properties of ringwoodite (Fex,Mg1-x)2SiO4: Its relationship to the 520 km seismic discontinuity”, Earth and Planet Science Letters, 351 115-122, 2012
2011
Wu, Z., and Wentzcovitch, R. M，“Quasiharmonic thermal elasticity of crystals: An analytical approach”, Physical Review B, 83, 184115 (2011)
Wu, Z., Nakano, A., Kalia, R. K., and Vashishta, P.,” Vibrational and thermodynamic properties of β- HMX: a first-principles investigation”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 134, 204509 (2011)
Wu, Z, Vashishta, P., Kalia, R., and Nakano, A., “First-principles calculations of the structural and dynamic properties, and the equation of state of crystalline iodine oxides I2O4, I2O5, and I2O6”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 134, 204501 (2011)
Shahnas M. H.; Peltier W. R.; Wu, Z, and Wentzcovitch R M, “The high-pressure electronic spin transition in iron: Potential impacts upon mantle mixing”，Journal of Geophysical Research，116, B08205,（2011）
2010
Wu, Z., “Calculating the anharmonic free energy from first principles”, Physical Review B, 81, 172301 (2010)
Wentzcovitch, R. M., Yu, Y., and Wu, Z., (2010) “Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Relations in Mantle Minerals Investigated by First Principles Quasiharmonic Theory”, Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 71,59-98.
Wentzcovitch, R. M., Yu, Y., and Wu, Z. “First Principles Quasiharmonic Thermoelasticity of Mantle Minerals”, Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 71 59, 2010.
Hsu, H., Umemoto, K., Wu, Z., Wentzcovitch, R. M., “Spin-State Crossover of Iron in Lower-Mantle Minerals: Results of DFT plus U Investigations”,Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 71 169, 2010.
Shimojo, F., Wu, Z., Nakano, A.,Kalia, RK., and Vashishta P.,\