Dr Xiuwen Zhou
Dr

Xiuwen Zhou

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Background

Xiuwen Zhou received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where she worked with Prof Tomasz A. Wesolowski, who is recognized as the co-inventor of Frozen-Density Embedding Theory (FDET) alongside Nobel laureate Prof. Arieh Warshel (co-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry). 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 Australian-APEC Women in Research Fellowship (2016). 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.

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Dr Xiuwen Zhou is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Chemical Sciences Condensed matter physics Physical Sciences Physical chemistry

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Geneva

Research interests

  • Modelling of large-scale systems

    Dr Xiuwen Zhou is a theoretician in the interdisciplinary area of physics and chemistry. Her research interest is to solve problems in chemistry and condensed-matter physics by computer modelling. One of her interests is to answer questions on the quantum properties of large-scale systems such as biological systems, porous solid systems, and solvation systems using multiscale modelling methods (eg, Frozen-Density Embedding Theory)

  • Rational design of functional molecules/materials

    Current focus is on the design of light-emitting fluorophores/phosphors and optical chemical sensors

  • Dynamics of molecular excited states

    Investigating the dynamics of molecular excited states using Car–Parrinello Molecular Dynamics (CPMD) method

  • Strongly-correlated molecular crystals

    Developing the parameters for the effective Hamiltonian for molecular crystals with first-principles methods (eg, DFT)

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43 works between 2009 and 2025
All (43) Journal Article (43)

41 - 43 of 43 works

2010

Journal Article

Electronic structure and optical properties of CdWO4 with oxygen vacancy studied from first principles

Zhou, Xiuwen, Liu, Tingyu, Zhang, Qiren, Cheng, Fang and Qiao, Hailing (2010). Electronic structure and optical properties of CdWO4 with oxygen vacancy studied from first principles. Solid State Communications, 150 (1-2), 5-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ssc.2009.10.019

Electronic structure and optical properties of CdWO4 with oxygen vacancy studied from first principles

2009

Journal Article

First-principles study of cadmium vacancy in CdWO4 crystal

Zhou, Xiuwen, Liu, Tingyu, Zhang, Qiren, Cheng, Fang and Qiao, Hailing (2009). First-principles study of cadmium vacancy in CdWO4 crystal. Solid State Sciences, 11 (12), 2071-2074. doi: 10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2009.09.006

First-principles study of cadmium vacancy in CdWO4 crystal

2009

Journal Article

Study of the electronic structures of oxygen doped in LiBaF3 crystal

Qiao, Hailing, Liu, Tingyu, Zhang, Qiren, Cheng, Fan and Zhou, Xiuwen (2009). Study of the electronic structures of oxygen doped in LiBaF3 crystal. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 267 (15), 2467-2470. doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.05.072

Study of the electronic structures of oxygen doped in LiBaF3 crystal

Availability

Dr Xiuwen Zhou is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Computer-aided material discovery for light-emitting materials in OLEDs

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Ben Powell

Completed supervision

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