{"id":250,"date":"2026-10-08T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=250"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:56:14","slug":"prof-alfred-zong","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/speaker\/prof-alfred-zong\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Alfred Zong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alfred Zong is an assistant professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Departments of Physics<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/appliedphysics.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Applied Physics<\/u><\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Stanford University<\/u><\/a>. The Zong group focuses on the study of light-induced non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum materials. This research explores the intersection between condensed matter and ultrafast science in order to design, discover, and understand non-equilibrium phases of quantum materials.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":252,"template":"","class_list":["post-250","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant professor in the Departments of Physics\u00a0and Applied Physics\u00a0at Stanford University","speaker_last_name":"Zong","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/250\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-materials-universe-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}