1.         Computational Material science, including DFT, MD and phase field modeling

2.         Phase transition under extremes, including high pressure, shock compression, radiation damage

3.         Shape memory alloys

2022.2 – Present   Xi'an Jiaotong University, China   Professor

2019.1 – 2022.1    Xi'an Jiaotong University, China   Associate Professor 

2016.10 – 2018.12  University of Edinburgh, UK     Postdoc  

2013.3 – 2014.9   Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA   Visiting Student

2011.9 – 2015.6   College of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China   Ph.D.

2009.9 – 2011.6   College of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China   Ms.D.

2005.9–2009.7  College of Material Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,  China  B.Sc.

2021  Outstanding Young Scientist, IFAM 2021

2016  Award for Excellent Doctoral Thesis, CMRS

2009  Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Full publications list and Citation

http://scholar.google.com/zonghust

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-4078

Selected Publications

1. Hongxiang Zong; Victor Naden Robinson; Andreas Hermann; Long Zhao; Sandro Scandolo; Xiangdong Ding; Graeme J.Ackland*; Free electron to electride transition in dense liquid potassium, Nature Physics, 2021.

2. Hongxiang Zong; Heather Wiebe; Graeme J. Ackland; Understanding highpressure molecular hydrogen with a hierarchical machine-learned potential, Nature Communications, 2020, 11: 5014.

3. Victor Naden Robinson; Hongxiang Zong; Graeme J.Ackland; Gavin Woolman; Andreas Hermann; On the chain-melted phase of matter, Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019.

4. Hongxiang Zong; Haijun Wu; Xuefei Tao; Deqing Xue; Jun Sun; Stephen J.Pennycook; Tai Min; Zhenyu Zhang*; Xiangdong Ding; Percolated Strain Networks and Universal Scaling Properties of Strain Glasses , Physical Review Letters, 2019.

5. S Ren, H Zong X Tao, Y Sun, B An Sun, D Xue, X Ding, W Wang, Boson-peak-like anomaly caused by transverse phonon softening in strain glass, Nature Communications, 2021

6. Heng Li, H Zong, Suzhi Li, Shenbao Jin, Yan Chen, Matthew J. Cabral, Bing Chen, Qianwei Huang, Yan Chen,Yang Ren, Kaiyuan Yu, Shuang Han, Xiangdong Ding, Gang Sha, Jianshe Lian, Xiaozhou Liao, En Ma, Jun Sun, Uniting tensile ductility with ultrahigh strength via composition undulation, Nature, 2022

7. Y Yang, H Zong, X Ding, J Sun, Rippling Ferroic Phase Transition and Domain Switching in Two-Dimensional Materials, Advanced Materials, 2021

8. L Huang, Y Yao, X Wang, S Sun, X Zhu, J Lian, Y Li, H Zong, S Han, X Ding, In-situ phosphating of Zn doped bimetallic skeleton as versatile electrocatalyst for water splitting, Energy & Environmental Science, 202