Xiaoying Zhuang#
| Membership Number: | 7461 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6562-2618 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=EejXDPEAAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 04.2020 - now Chair Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz University Hannover
- 07.2019 - 03.2020 Professor, Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover
- 12.2015 - 03.2020 Sofja-Kovalevskaja Prize Awardee and Group Leader, Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University Hannover
- 07.2014 - 11.2015 FP7 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
- 01.2013 - 06.2014 Associate Professor, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- 03.2011 - 12.2012 Lecturer, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University
- 11.2010 - 02.2011 Postdoc, Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational mechanics
- Machine learning
- Multiscale methods
- Flexoelectricity
- Partial differential equations
- Nano composites
- Fracture mechanics
- Deep energy method
- Multiphysics modelling
Honours and Awards
- September 2023 K.J. Bathe Award 2023
- Nov 2022 Distinguished Lecture of 2023 and 2024, IEEE Nanotechnology Council, ’Machine Learning Based Multiscale Exploration and Characterization of 2D materials
- ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2021 (Computer Science), 2020 (Cross-field), 2019 (Cross-field)
- March 2019 Heisenberg-Professor, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- December 2019 Curious-Mind-Awards, Hall of Fame, Scientist of the Year in the category ’Materials’, Darmstadter Merck-Konzern
- August 2018 ERC Starting Grant, Horizon2020, European Research Council
- November 2018.Scientist Award of Lower Saxony 2018, Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
- 2018 ITA (International Tunneling Association) Technical Product / Equipment Innovation of the Year, Multifunctional energy storage composites for nano-coatings
- March 2018 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2018, Federal Ministry for Education and Research and German Research Foundation
- December 1 2015 - ongoing Sofja-Kovalevskaja Prize, Young Investigator Group Leader, 1.65 million Euros, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- November 2013 FP7 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (MC-IIF), Panel Score 98.1/100
- 2010 Zienkiewicz Prize for the Best PhD Dissertation in the field of Computational Mechanics, Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME), UK (1 award per year)




