Xiaoying Zhuang - Curriculum Vitae#


Professional experience and education
  • 04.2020 - now Chair Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz University Hannover
  • 11.2019 Offer of Chair Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • 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 at Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
  • 05.2014. Offer of Associate Professor, Durham University, the UK
  • 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
  • 09.2007 - 10.2010 PhD student at the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, University of Durham, the UK
  • 09.2005 - 09.2007 MSc in College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University. No. 1 among all 65 master students
  • 09.2001 - 07.2005 BEng in College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University

Award and prizes
  • Qidi Prize for Female Scientist 2024, named after female scientist Prof. Dr. Qidi Wu; in April 2024.
  • K.J. Bathe Award 2023, named after Prof. K.J. Bathe from MIT for awarding of scientists in Computational Mechanics; in September 2023.
  • Distinguished Lecture of 2023 and 2024, IEEE Nanotechnology Council, ’Machine Learning Based Multiscale Exploration and Characterization of 2D materials’; in Nov 2022.
  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2021 (Computer Science), 2019 and 2020 (Cross-field).
  • Heisenberg-Professor, German Research Foundation (DFG) in March 2019.
  • Curious-Mind-Awards, Hall of Fame, Scientist of the Year in the category ’Materials’, Darmstadter Merck-Konzern; in December 2019.
  • ERC Starting Grant, Horizon2020, European Research Council; in August 2018.
  • Scientist Award of Lower Saxony 2018, Ministry for Science and Culture; in November 2018.
  • International Tunneling Association Technical Product / Equipment Innovation of the Year (2018), in November 2018.
  • Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2018, Federal Ministry for Education and Research and German Research Foundation; in March 2018.
  • Sofja-Kovalevskaja Prize, Young Investigator Group Leader, 1.65 million Euros, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Federal Ministry for Education and Research; Project started on December 1st, 2015.
  • FP7 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (MC-IIF) awarded in November 2013, Panel Score 98.1/100.
  • Zienkiewicz Prize for the Best PhD Dissertation in the field of Computational Mechanics in 2010, UK Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME) (1 award per year)

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