Office Phone：15940890823
Email: x.zhou@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
Webpage: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/web/x.zhou
Research interests：
1. Characterization and mechanisms of the chemical structure of crystal defects
2. Mechanisms by which trace/impurity elements modulate properties of magnesium and magnesium alloys
3. In situ environmental electron microscopy studies of green steel
4. High-throughput, physics-informed AI for materials design
5. Applications of autonomous robotics in transmission electron microscopy
6. Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM), atom probe tomography (APT), and their correlative integration
7. Spherical-aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (Cs-corrected STEM)
Experience：
09/2025—now Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Professor.
03/2024—08/2025 Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany, Project group leader for “Atomic-Scale Dynamics of Sustainable Materials”
12/2021—03/2024 Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany, Deputy head of the Atom Probe Group (group leader: Prof. Baptiste Gault)
04/2019—12/2021 Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany, Postdoc researcher, (advisors: Prof. Dierk Raabe, member of the German National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and Prof. Gerhard Dehm, member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
02/2018—04/2019, The University of Alabama, USA, Postdoc researcher (advisor: Prof. Gregory B. Thompson)
Education：
07/2014—05/2018 The University of Alabama, USA, Doctor (advisor: Prof. Gregory B. Thompson)
08/2011—06/2014 Dalian University of Technology, Master, (advisor: Prof. Chuang Dong)
08/2007—06/2011 Dalian University of Technology, Bachelor
Honor & Awards：
Humboldt Fellow, Germany
Young Scientist honor from the International Microscopy Congress
Representative Publications：
Full publications list and Citation
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Sv-LbX4AAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xuyang-Zhou-2
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-4103
Selected Publications
1. X. Zhou†,*, S. Kumar†, S. Zhang, X. Chen, B. Gault, G. Dehm, T. Hickel*, and D. Raabe*, Nat. Commun. 16 6927 (2025). *: Co-corresponding authors，†: Co-first authors
2. X. Zhou*, B. Bienvenu*, Y. Wu, A. Kwiatkowski da Silva, C. Ophus, D. Raabe*, Complexions at the iron-magnetite interface, Nat. Commun. 16 2705 (2025). *: Co-corresponding authors
3. X. Zhou†, P. Mathews†, B. Berkels, W. Delis, S. Saood, A. Shamseldeen Ali Alhassan, P. Keuter, J.M. Schneider, S. Korte-Kerzel, S. Sandlöbes-Haut, D. Raabe, J. Neugebauer, G. Dehm, T. Hickel, C. Scheu, S. Zhang, Materials Design by Constructing Phase Diagrams for Defects, Adv Mater 2402191 (2024). †: Co-first authors
4. X. Zhou*, Y. Bai*, A.A. El-Zoka, S.-H. Kim, Y. Ma, C.H. Liebscher, B. Gault, J.R. Mianroodi, G. Dehm, D. Raabe*, Effect of Pore Formation on Redox-Driven Phase Transformation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 168001 (2023). *: Co-corresponding authors
5. X. Zhou*, A. Ahmadian, B. Gault, C. Ophus, C.H. Liebscher, G. Dehm, D. Raabe*, Atomic motifs govern the decoration of grain boundaries by interstitial solutes, Nat. Commun. 14(1) 3535 (2023). *: Co-corresponding authors
6. X. Zhou*, Y. Wei, M. Kühbach, H. Zhao, F. Vogel, R. Darvishi Kamachali, G.B. Thompson, D. Raabe, B. Gault, Revealing in-plane grain boundary composition features through machine learning from atom probe tomography data, Acta Mater 226 117633 (2022). *: Single corresponding author
7. X. Zhou, R. Darvishi Kamachali, B. Boyce, B. Clark, D. Raabe, G.B. Thompson, Spinodal Decomposition in Nanocrystalline Alloys, Acta Mater 215 117054 (2021).
8. X. Zhou*, J. Mianroodi*, A.K. da Silva, T. Koenig, G. Thompson, P. Shanthraj, D. Ponge, B. Gault, B. Svendsen, D. Raabe*, The hidden structure dependence of the chemical life of dislocations, Sci Adv 7(16) eabf0563 (2021). *: Co-corresponding authors
9. X. Zhou, A. Gupta, G.J. Tucker, G.B. Thompson, Manipulation of Solute Partitioning Mechanisms for Nanocrystalline Stability, Acta Mater 208 116662 (2021).
10. X. Chen, W. Gonçalves, Y. Hu, Y. Gao, P. Harrison, G. Dehm, B. Gault, W. Ludwig, E. Rauch, X. Zhou*, D. Raabe, Secondary Grain Boundary Dislocations Alter Segregation Energy Spectra, Nat. Commun. (2025) in principle accepted. *: Single corresponding author
