An-chang Shi
Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Dr. An-Chang Shi is a professor of physics at McMaster University. He earned B.Sc. in physics from Fudan University and Ph.D. in physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate at McMaster University. He joined Xerox Research Centre of Canada as a Member of Research Staff in 1992 and moved to McMaster University as an Associate Professor in 1999. Dr. Shi received a Premier’s Research Excellent Award in 2000 and was elected to Fellow of American Physical Society in 2010.

Dr. Shi has worked on a wide range of topics in condensed matter physics. His current research activities focus on the development of theoretic models and methods for soft matter, the investigation of phase behaviour of self-assembling macromolecules, and the study of kinetic pathways of transitions between stable and metastable states.