User:Xiuwen Zhou/sandbox

Xiuwen Zhou is a computational condensed matter physicist and quantum chemist at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has a strong multi-disciplinary background having been trained in both physics and chemistry. She develops new computational methods and strategies based on quantum mechanics for simulating the properties of solids and molecules, including structural, electronic, optical and charge transfer properties. She has answered fundamental questions in the areas of nanomaterials, crystal growth, solvatochromism, and biochemistry (human eye system). Her recent passion is to find new materials with technological applications via developing and applying state-of-the-art computational methods.

Career and research
Zhou received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where she worked with Prof Tomasz A. Wesolowski. Then she moved to the University of Queensland (UQ) as a visiting scholar, supported by two awarded fellowships, i.e., a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship (2015) and an Australia-APEC Women in Research Fellowship (2016). She has held independent research fellowships since 02/2015. This has allowed her to carry out independent research projects as well as establishing an independent research team. She then took up a UQ Development Fellowship in 2017, working as a teaching and research fellow at UQ School of Mathematics and Physics. Later, she was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) commencing in 2019. Recently she accepted a faculty position from Queensland University of Technology in 2024. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Honours and Awards

 * 2022-2024 UQ Amplify Fellowship, (The University of Queensland)
 * 2019-2022 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), (Australian Research Council, ARC)
 * 2017-2019 UQ Development Fellowship, (University of Queensland, UQ)
 * 2016 Australia-APEC Women in Research Fellowship, (Australian Department of Education and Training)
 * 2015 SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, (Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF)
 * Computing Grants, (Australian National Computational Infrastructure, NCI)
 * 2014 Full Score in PhD Oral Examination, (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
 * Student Representative on the Media, Density Functional Theory Workshop, (The International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP), Trieste, Italy
 * Conference Travel Award (Fonds F. Firmenich et Ph. Chuit), Geneva Academic Society, Switzerland
 * Conference Travel Award (COST Action), (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
 * 2010-2014 Swiss PhD Fellowship, (Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF)