 
 
Chenou Zhang
Chenou Zhang joined the Ph.D. program in Physics in Aug. 2015. After working with Dr. Bill Graves on the design of a compact x-ray source. In summer 2018, he switched to work in the Becksteinlab with Dr. Beckstein where he focuses on secondary active transporter and conformational transitions.
Chenou obtained a B.Sc in 2015, majored in Applied Physics, from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His undergraduate research includes using synchrotron radiation on structure detection of nano-particles at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) supervised by Dr. Gang Chen and nano-material synthesis at USTC supervised by Dr. XiaoLiang Xu.
His research interests include free energy calculations, protein conformational transitions, and machine learning algorithms on big-data analysis. His current projects include using enhanced sampling methods to understand and characterize transition pathways, .
 Publications
 I. Winkelmann, R. Matsuoka, P. F. Meier, D. Shutin, C. Zhang, L. Orellana, R. Sexton, M.
Landreh, C. V. Robinson, O. Beckstein, and D. Drew, “Structure and elevator mechanism of
the mammalian sodium/proton exchanger NHE9,” EMBO J, vol. 39, no. 24, pp. 4541–4559,
Dec. 15, 2020.
C.	Zhang,	William	Graves,	Mark	Holl,	Lucas	Malin,	Emilio	Nanni,	“Electron	Beam	Optics	for	
the ASU	compact	XFEL”,	IPAC’18
C.Zhang,	L.E.Malin,W.S.Graves,	J.C.H.Spence, E.A.	Nanni,C.Limborg,	D.Cesar,	J.
Maxson,	P.Musumeci,	A.Urbanowicz,	“Imaging	the spatial modulation of	a relativistic electron	
beam” IPAC 2017
C.	Zhang,	David	Cesar,	William	Graves,	Renkai	Li,	Lucas	Malin,	Jared	Maxson,	Pietro
Musumeci,	Emilio	Nanni,	Xiaozhe	Shen,	John	Spence,	Andrew	Urbanowicz,	Stephen	
Weathersby,	Jie	Yang,	“Experiments	in	electron	beam	nanopatterning”	FEL	2017








