Xuehua Zhang PhD

Professor Xuehua Zhang completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with her thesis on surface nanobubbles. After her Ph.D. study, she first worked as an Endeavour Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Math, Australian National University in Canberra (the capital of Australia), and then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne. She was awarded a prestigious ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2008 and then also a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship in 2012. In 2014 she joined RMIT University in Melbourne as an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering and around the same period, she was also appointed as a part-time Professor in the Physics of Fluids Group at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands. In September 2017, she came to Edmonton Canada, and became a Professor in Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta. Her research areas lie in colloid and interface sciences, nanomaterials, and fluid dynamics. She collaborates broadly and enjoys working with bright students and junior researchers.