Zhiyuan Zhu

Analytical Scientist | Protein Characterization

United States

About

Experience

  • Application Scientist at Dimer Instruments
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Research Assistant at UC Santa Barbara
    Oct 2018 - Sep 2025 · 7 yrs

    As a Graduate Research Assistant, I led the maintenance and optimization of home-built ion mobility-mass spectrometers, developed and validated workflows for biomolecular analysis, and collaborated with cross-functional labs to research peptide aggregation related to Parkinson's disease.

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at The University of Hong Kong
    Sep 2017 - Jun 2018 · 10 mos

    Executed time-resolved Raman resonance and TD-DFT calculations to characterize nitrenium ions.

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Northwestern University
    Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 · 3 mos

    Conducted femtosecond transient absorption and fluorescence up-conversion to investigate Pt(II) dimers excited-state dynamics.

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at The University of Hong Kong
    Jun 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Synthesized and purified rhodol-based fluorescent probes for HOCl detection.