Henning Zhang

Henning Zhang is a Swiss physics and mathematics talent from Villigen (Aargau) who represented Switzerland at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2015 and 2016, winning bronze both years. He also won bronze at the 2017 International Physics Olympiad in Yogyakarta and gold in the 2017 Swiss Mathematical Olympiad Final Round, and is enshrined in the SMO Hall of Fame. He studied physics at ETH Zurich through a master's and has stayed in the olympiad community as a volunteer and science writer.

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• Represented Switzerland at the International Mathematical Olympiad in both 2015 (bronze, rank 217, 62.6%) and 2016 (bronze, rank 184, 69.6%); contestant id 25846.
• Swiss Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame entrant with a 2 gold / 2 silver SMO record, placing him among Switzerland's strongest young mathematicians of his cohort.
• Won bronze at the 48th International Physics Olympiad 2017 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, his third international science olympiad.
• Studied physics at ETH Zurich at bachelor's and master's level and was still a physics master's student as of 2021.
• Won SMO Final Round gold in 2017 while based in Villigen (Kantonsschule Wettingen).
• Chose to skip IPhO 2016 in Zurich to focus on the national mathematics olympiad that same year, indicating math took priority over physics at the time.
• Returned to the olympiad community as a volunteer, listed among the people behind the Swiss Physics and Science Olympiads and contributing to the Science Olympiads editorial team.
• Sustained three consecutive international science olympiads (IMO 2015, IMO 2016, IPhO 2017), an unusually broad math-plus-physics profile rather than single-subject specialization.
• Won the Swiss Physical Society's special prize for young academics at the 22nd Swiss Physics Olympiad in Aarau, 2016.
• Photographed olympiad events in 2023 (credited as photo author on Physics Olympiad news pages), indicating continued hands-on involvement.
• Authored a hands-on science explainer ('Mathematisch musizieren') for the Mathematics Olympiad site in 2021, turning olympiad-style physics into a public experiment.