Prof. Zhou is mainly interested in developing methods encompassing machine learning, enhanced sampling, statistical learning, and free energy estimation for surface/interfacial phenomena including semiconductor oxide thin film growth, quantum material thin film growth and electrochemical ammonia synthesis, etc.

• AI4Surface

• Statistical Learning

• Large-Scale Simulation

2015– 2020 Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics with Summe cum laude,

 supervisor: Prof. Mattthias Scheffler, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society/Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2012– 2015 M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics with Grade A,

 supervisor: Yanming Ma,

 Jilin University, Changchun, China

2008– 2012 B.S. in Physics with 95/100, in Finance (minor), Jilin University, Changchun, China

supervisor: Yanming Ma

2025.04– now Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

2024.07– 2024.12 Junior group leader, Department of Material Science, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Berlin, Germany

 2021.06– 2024.05 Postdoc working with Jens K. Nørskov, Catalysis Theory Center, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Supervisor：Prof. Jens K. Nørskov

2020.04– 2021.04 Research associate working with Matthias Scheffler, NOMAD Laboratory, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany

1. Xianbiao Fu† , Jakob B. Pedersen† , Yuanyuan, Zhou† , Mattia Saccoccio, Shaofeng Li, Rokas Sažinas, Katja Li, Suzanne Z. Andersen, Niklas H. Deissler, Aoni Xu, Jon Bjarke Valbæk Mygind, Chao Wei, Debasish Chakraborty, Jakob Kibsgaard, Peter C. K. Vesborg, Jens K. Nørskov*, and Ib Chorkendorff* “Continuous flow electrosynthesis of ammonia by nitrogen reduction and hydrogen oxidation” Science 379, 707–712, (2023)

2.Yuanyuan,Zhou*,ChunyeZhu,MatthiasSchefflerandLucaM.Ghringhelli“Abinitioapproach for thermodynamic surface phases with full consideration of anharmonic effects– the example of hydrogen at Si(100) ” Phys. Rev. Lett., 128, 246101 (2022)

3. Yuanyuan, Zhou*, Matthias Scheffler and Luca M. Ghringhelli* “Dertermining phase diagram including anharmonic effects” Phys. Rev. B 100, 174106 (2019) Editor suggestions

4. Wenhui Mi, Xuecheng Shao, Chuanxun Su, Yuanyuan, Zhou, Shoutao Zhang, Quan Li, Hui Wang, Lijun Zhang, Maosheng Miao, Yanchao Wang*, and Yanming Ma* “A Real-Space Finite-Difference Implementation of Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory” Comput. Phys. Commun. 200, 87(2016)