Awards: National Outstanding Youth Fund, Jiangsu Province Outstanding Youth Fund
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hokkaido University, Japan
2010-present Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
2008-2009 Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, USA
2005-2010 Associate Researcher, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2020 National Outstanding Youth Fund
2017 Jiangsu Province Outstanding Youth Fund
2012 Hou Defeng Young Scientist Award by the Chinese Society of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
2011 JSPS Fellowship, Japan
2011 First Class Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China (Ranked second)
2010 Young Key Teacher by Nanjing University
Research
Planetary Science Mineralogy Geochemistry
Discovery of abundant shock-induced metallic lead nanograins in lunar zirconolite, Zhang AC, Sun HX, Du TT, Chen JN, Gu LX, 2024
Isotopic geochronological constraints on the formation and evolution of the Moon, Zhang AC, He HY, Hu S, Li XH, Lin YT, Qin LP, Wang GQ, Xiao ZY, 2024
Subsolidus breakdown of armalcolite: Constraints on thermal effects during shock lithification of lunar regolith, Du TT, Zhang AC, Chen JN, Wen YY, 2024
Mineralogical anatomy of the Cr-rich quenched angrite Northwest Africa 12774: Implication to mantle heterogeneity, He Y, Zhang AC, Peng YB, Liu J, Qin LP, 2024
Return to the Moon: New perspectives on lunar exploration, Lin Y, Yang W, Zhang H, and coauthors including Zhang A, 2024
Disequilibrium oxygen isotope distribution among aqueously altered minerals in Ryugu asteroid returned samples, Kita NT, Kitajima K, Nagashima K, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2024
Hydrogen in magnetite from asteroid Ryugu, Aleon J, Mostefaoui S, Bureau H, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2024
Analysis of cation composition in dolomites on the intact particles samples from asteroid Ryugu, Morita M, Yui H, Urashima S, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2024
Apatite in brachinites: Insights into thermal history and halogen evolution, Zhang L, Zhang AC, Wang SZ, 2023
Nucleosynthetic s-process depletion in Mo from Ryugu samples returned by Hayabusa2, Nakanishi N, Yokoyama T, Ishikawa A, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Neodymium-142 deficits and samarium neutron stratigraphy of C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu, Tarrano ZA, Jordan MK, Mock TD, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
The magnesium isotope composition of samples returned from asteroid Ryugu, Bizzarro M, Schiller M, Yokoyama T, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Pervasive aqueous alteration in the early Solar System revealed by potassium isotopic variations in Ryugu samples and carbonaceous chondrites, Hu Y, Moynier F, Dai W, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Water circulation in Ryugu asteroid affected the distribution of nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies in returned sample, Yokoyama T, Wadhwa M, Iizuka T, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Insight into geological evolution of the mesosiderite parent body from olivine alteration and merrillite Pb-Pb age in Dong Ujimqin Qi, Chen JY, Wang Y, Zhang AC, Liao SY, Li SL, Beard S, Zhu MH, 2023
The oxygen isotopic composition of samples returned from asteroid Ryugu with implications for the nature of the parent planetesimal, Tang HL, Young ED, Tafla L, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Abundant presolar grains and primordial organics preserved in carbon-rich exogenous clasts in asteroid Ryugu, Nguyen AN, Mane P, Keller LP, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Carbonate record of temporal change in oxygen fugacity and gaseous species in asteroid Ryugu, Fujiya W, Kawasaki N, Nakashima K, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Hydrogen isotopic composition of hydrous minerals in asteroid Ryugu, Piani L, Marrocchi Y, Nakashima K, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites, Yokoyama T, Nagashima K, Nakai I, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2023
Formation and decomposition of vacancy-rich clinopyroxene in a shocked eucrite: New insights for multiple impact events, Zhang AC, Li JY, Chen JN, Wen YY, Guo YJ, Li Y, Sakamoto N, Yurimoto H, 2022
Evolved components in the eucrite parent body: Records in the layered eucrite Northwest Africa 8021, He Y, Liu XW, Zhang AC, 2022
Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth's volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis, Paquet M, Moynier F, Yokoyama T, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2022
Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2, Kawasaki N, Nagashima K, Sakamoto N, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2022
Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System, Hopp T, Dauphas N, Abe Y, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2022
The solar system calcium isotopic composition inferred from Ryugu samples, Moynier F, Dai W, Yokoyama T, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2022
Presolar stardust in asteroid Ryugu, Barosch J, Nittler LR, Wang J, and coauthors including Zhang AC, 2022
New occurrence of seifertite and stishovite in Chang'E-5 regolith, Pang RL, Yang J, Du W, Zhang AC, Liu SR, Li R, 2022
Widespread tissintite in strongly shock-lithified lunar regolith breccias, Zhang AC, Jiang QT, Tomioka N, Guo YJ, Chen JN, Li Y, Sakamoto N, Yurimoto H, 2021
Mineralogical and oxygen isotopic study of a new ultrarefractory inclusion in the Northwest Africa 3118 CV3 chondrite, Xiong Y, Zhang AC, Kawasaki N, Ma C, Sakamoto N, Chen JN, Gu LX, Yurimoto H, 2020
A new occurrence of corundum in eucrite and its significance, Li JY, Zhang AC, Sakamoto N, Yurimoto H, Gu LX, 2020
Unique angrite-like fragments in a CH3 chondrite reveal a new basaltic planetesimal, Zhang AC, Kawasaki N, Kuroda M, Li Y, Wang HP, Bai XN, Sakamoto N, Yin QZ, Yurimoto H, 2020
Evidence of metasomatism in the interior of Vesta, Zhang AC, Kawasaki N, Bao H, Liu J, Qin L, Kuroda M, Gao JF, Chen LH, He Y, Sakamoto N, Yurimoto H, 2020
Cr-Zr-Ca armalcolite in lunar rocks is loveringite: Constraints from electron backscatter diffraction, Zhang AC, Pang RL, Sakamoto N, Yurimoto H, 2020
Unique mineral assemblages of shock-induced titanium-rich melt pockets in eucrite Northwest Africa 8003, Pang RL, Harries D, Pollok K, Zhang AC, Langenhorst F, 2019
Shock-induced phase transformation of anorthitic plagioclase in the eucrite meteorite Northwest Africa 2650, Chen DL, Zhang AC, Pang RL, Chen JN, Li Y, 2019
Possible records of space weathering on Vesta: Case study in a brecciated eucrite Northwest Africa 1109, Wang SZ, Zhang AC, Pang RL, Li Y, Chen JN, 2019
An example of high-T, high-symmetry crystallization: Spherical (Mg,Fe)-oxides formed by particle attachment in the shocked Martian meteorite Northwest Africa 7755, Zhang AC, Wang SZ, Tomioka N, Lu XC, Ding ZY, Ma C, Wang P, Chen JN, Xu S, Gu LX, Bai YQ, Li Y, Sakamoto N, Wang RC, 2019
