Dr. Xiujuan Zhang is an Associate Professor at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University. Her research focuses on acoustic metamaterials and topological physics.
Biography
Dr. Xiujuan Zhang is an Associate Professor at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University and at the Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures. She received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2017. In 2018, she joined Nanjing University, starting as a postdoc. Now, Her research focuses on acoustic metamaterials and topological physics. She has published over 30 papers in prestigious journals, including Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters. Four papers have been recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers, with a total citation exceeding 2000.
Research Interests
Xiujuan Zhang's research interests include topological physics and artificial microstructured topological materials, and has published more than 30 articles as the first author in international journals, including Nature, Nature Physic, Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters. Her he doctoral studies focused on the effective dielectric theory of Yu Supang materials (including photonic/phonon crystals and grating/sound grid structures), the novel physical effects associated with the Dirac dispersion curve, and the study of wave losses in the materials of the superstructure.
Awards and Distinctions
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2017
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Condensed Matter Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China, 2013
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
- Materials Physics, Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT), China, 2010
Projects
Xiujuan Zhang visited Waves in Complex Media (WCM) research group at KAUST from April 2012 to July 2012. During her visit, she studied the acoustic waveguide and developed the scattering theory based on eigenfunction expansion.