教育经历：

2014年–2018年，新加坡国立大学综合科学与工程学院，博士 (导师: Stephen J. Pennycook & Loh Kian Ping教授)

2010年–2014年，新加坡南洋理工大学材料科学与工程学院，一等荣誉学士

工作经历：

2022年–至今，北京大学材料科学与工程学院，助理教授、研究员、博士生导师

2020年–2022年，新加坡南洋理工大学材料科学与工程学院，校长博士后 (合作导师: Liu Zheng教授)

2018年–2020年，新加坡国立大学材料科学与工程学院，博士后 (合作导师: Stephen J. Pennycook & Andrew T.S. Wee教授)

研究兴趣和研究方向：

近年我们主要从事球差扫描透射电镜技术和低维材料生长，在低维量子材料亚原子尺度的结构解析、人工构筑与物性调控方向开展了系统研究，包括：1）开发了在低维量子材料层间构筑有序金属原子层的新技术，实现了晶圆级低维铁磁薄膜的合成；2）利用原位球差电镜技术，通过对原子尺度拓扑结构的实时观测，确认了系列低维量子材料形成与演变机制，揭示了拓扑属性对物性的影响规律及构效关系，为实现特定材料拓扑结构的可控生长奠定了实验基础。迄今在Nature, Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Synth.,等高水平期刊发表SCI论文160余篇。论文被引超过15,000余次，h指数68。担任InfoMat, Materials Today Electronics等期刊青年编委。

目前关注的体系包括（不限于）：

1）高空间分辨扫描透射电子显微镜学

2）原子图像深度分析与处理

3）新型低维材料生长

荣誉与奖励：

2025年，北京大学优秀班主任

2025年、2023年，北京大学先进招生个人

2024年，国家重点研发计划 青年首席科学家

2024年，北京市杰出青年基金

2022年，《麻省理工科技评论》“35 岁以下科技创新35人”亚太区榜单

2022年，福布斯中国·青年海归菁英·100人

2021年，国家级高层次海外青年项目

2020年，南洋理工大学，Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship

2018年，国家优秀自费留学生奖

2014年，南洋理工大学材料科学与工程学院，Dean’s List

2013年，南洋理工大学材料科学与工程学院，Dean’s List

代表性论文：

1. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Peng Song^#, Chengcai Wang, Anders C. Riis-Jensen, Wei Fu, Ya Deng, Dongyang Wan, Lixing Kang, Shoucong Ning, Jiadong Dan, T. Venkatesan, Zheng Liu, Wu Zhou, Kristian S. Thygesen, Xin Luo*, Stephen J. Pennycook* and Kian Ping Loh*, Engineering Covalently Bonded 2D Layered Materials by Self-Intercalation. Nature. 2020, 581, 171-177.

2. Huihui Lin^#, Jian Jiang^#, Yanxin Dou^#, Pin Lyu^#, Xiaocang Han, Yuan Meng, Yuanyuan He, Xin Zhou, Kangshu Li, Guoming Lin, Yu Teng, Jinxing Chen, Yang Meng, Thomas Osipowicz, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Xiao Cheng Zeng*, Jiong Lu*, Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon yields a high-precision proton beam. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01968-3.

3. Xiao Hai^#, Shibo Xi^#, Sharon Mitchell^#, Karim Harrath^#, Haomin Xu, Dario Faust Akl, Debin Kong, Jing Li, Zejun Li, Tao Sun, Huimin Yang, Yige Cui, Chenliang Su, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Jun Li*, Javier Pérez-Ramírez*, Jiong Lu*, Scalable two-step annealing method for preparing ultra-high-density single-atom catalyst libraries. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2022, 17, 174–181.

4. Xiaocang Han^#, Mengmeng Niu^#, Yan Luo^#, Runlai Li, Jiadong Dan, Yanhui Hong, Xu Wu, Alex V. Trukhanov, Wei Ji, Yeliang Wang, Jiahuan Zhou, Jingsi Qiao*, Jin Zhang*, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Atomically Engineering Metal Vacancies in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Nature Synthesis. 2024, 3, 586–594

5. Ziyi Han^#, Shengqiang Wu^#, Chun Huang^#, Fengyuan Xuan, Xiaocang Han, Yinfeng Long, Qing Zhang, Junxian Li, Yuan Meng, Lin Wang, Jiahuan Zhou, Wenping Hu, Jingsi Qiao, Dechao Geng* and Xiaoxu Zhao*, Atomically Engineering Interlayer Symmetry Operations of Two-Dimensional Crystals. Nature Communications. 2024, 15, 10835

6. Jun Zhao^#, Xiaocang Han^#, Junxian Li^#, Ziyi Han, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Atomically Dispersed Catalytic Platinum Anti-Substitutions in Molybdenum Ditelluride. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 9825-9835.

7. Xiaocang Han#, Yuan Meng，Xiaoxu Zhao*，Graph vision at atomic scale. Matter. 2025, 8, 102320.

8. Yan Luo^#, Chun Huang^#, Xiaocang Han^#, Dawei Zhou, Zishen Wang, Chao Zhu*, Jingsi Qiao*, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Metallic monolayer iodinene sheets. Matter. 2025, 8, 102157.

9. Shengqiang Wu^#, Wanghao Tian^#, Runlai Li, Ziyi Han, Xuan Zhou, Song Huang, Ping Li*, Peng Song*, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Self-intercalated 6R-TaS2 with reduced symmetry for room temperature nonlinear Hall effect. Matter. 2025, 8, 102153.

10. Xiaocang Han, Jing-Yang You*, Ziyi Han, Yuan Meng, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Geminal Mirror Twin Boundaries in H-Phase NbTe2. Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 5843−5851.

11. Wing Ni Cheng^#, Ruihuan Duan^#, Mengmeng Niu^#, Xiaocang Han, Song Huang, Yu Liang, Jun Zhao, Zheng Liu*, Jingsi Qiao*, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Atomically Unveiling the Phase Evolution in Weakly Coupled Layered Transition-Metal Phosphorus Trichalcogenide by Chalcogen Doping. Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 6244−6252.

12. Shangtian Yang, Kwok Kwan Tang, Yu Liang, Ziyi Han, Qing Zhang, Xiaoxu Zhao*，Oxygen-Assisted Growth of 2D Vanadium Oxyhalides with Ordered Vanadium Dimerization. ACS Nano（accepted）

13. Shengqiang Wu^#,Siheng Li^#, Yuan Meng,Zanlin Qiu,Wei Fu, Ji Chen, Jin Zhang, and Xiaoxu Zhao*, In Situ Closing the van der Waals Gap of Two-Dimensional Materials. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 28398−28406

14. Kangshu Li^#, Xiaocang Han^#, Yanhui Hong*, Yuan Meng, Xiang Chen, Junxian Li, Jing-Yang You, Lin Yao, Wenchao Hu, Zhiyi Xia, Guolin Ke, Linfeng Zhang, Jin Zhang, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Single-Image-Based Deep Learning for Precise Atomic Defect identification. Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 10275–10283

15. Wing Ni Cheng＃, Mengmeng Niu^#, Yuan Meng, Xiaocang Han, Jingsi Qiao*, Jin Zhang, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Engineering Charge Density Waves by Stackingtronics in Tantalum Disulfide. Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 6441-6449

16. Shengqiang Wu^#, Minzhi Dai^#, Hang Li, Runlai Li, Ziyi Han, Wenchao Hu, Zijing Zhao, Yanglong Hou, Huiyang Gou, Ruqiang Zou, Yongjin Chen*, Xin Luo*, and Xiaoxu Zhao*, Atomically Unraveling Highly Crystalline Self-Intercalated Tantalum Sulfide with Correlated Stacking Registry-Dependent Magnetism. Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 378−385.

17. Xiaocang Han^#, Jing-Yang You^#, Shengqiang Wu, Runlai Li, Yuan Ping Feng, Kian Ping Loh*,Xiaoxu Zhao*, Atomically Unveiling an Atlas of Polytypes in Transition-MetalTrihalides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 3624-3635.

18. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Jingsi Qiao^#, Xin Zhou^#, Hao Chen, Jun You Tan, Hongyi Yu, Si Min Chan, Jing Li, Henshui Zhang, Jiadong Zhou, Jiadong Dan, Zhen Liu, Wu Zhou, Zheng Liu, Bo Peng*, Longjiang Deng, Stephen John Pennycook, Su Ying Quek, and Kian Ping Loh*,Strong moire excitons in high-angle twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers with robust commensuration. Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 203-210.

19. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Jingsi Qiao, Si Min Chan, Jing Li, Jiadong Dan, Shoucong Ning, Wu Zhou, Su Ying Quek*, Stephen John Pennycook*, and Kian Ping Loh*, Unveiling atomic-scale moire features and atomic reconstructions in high-angle commensurately twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers. Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 3262-3270.

20. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Yujin Ji^#, Jianyi Chen, Wei Fu, Jiadong Dan,Yuanyue Liu, Stephen J. Pennycook, Wu Zhou*, Kian Ping Loh*, Healing of Planar Defects in Two-Dimensional Materials via Grain Boundary Sliding. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1900237.

21. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Weiwei Sun^#, Dechao Geng, Wei Fu, Jiadong Dan, Yu Xie, Paul R. C. Kent, Wu Zhou, Stephen J. Pennycook*, and Kian Ping Loh*, Edge Segregated Polymorphism in Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Carbide. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1808343.

22. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Jiadong Dan, Jianyi Chen, Zijing Ding, Wu Zhou*, Kian Ping Loh*, and Stephen J. Pennycook*,Atom-by-atom fabrication of monolayer molybdenum membranes. Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1707281.

23. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Shoucong Ning, Wei Fu, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Kian Ping Loh*,Differentiating polymorphs in molybdenum disulfide via electron microscopy. Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1802397.

24. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Zijing Ding^#, Jianyi Chen, Jiadong Dan, Sock Mui Poh, Wei Fu, Stephen J. Pennycook, Wu Zhou*, and Kian Ping Loh*,Strain modulation by van der waals coupling in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide. ACS Nano. 2018, 12, 1940−1948.

25. Xiaoxu Zhao^#, Deyi Fu^#, Zijing Ding, Yu-Yang Zhang, Dongyang Wan, Sherman J. R. Tan, Zhongxin Chen, Kai Leng, Jiadong Dan, Wei Fu, Dechao Geng, Peng Song, Yonghua Du, T. Venkatesan, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Stephen J. Pennycook, Wu Zhou*, and Kian Ping Loh*,Mo-terminated edge reconstructions in nanoporous molybdenum disulfide film. Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 482−490.

26. Xiaoxu Zhao.; Loh, K. P.; Pennycook, S. J., Electron Beam Triggered Single-Atom Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Materials, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2018,31, 063001 (2021)

27. Xiaoxu Zhao; Rui, X. H.; Zhou, W. W.; Tan, L. P.; Yan, Q. Y.; Lu, Z. Y.; Hng, H. H., Growth of Si Nanowires in Porous Carbon with Enhanced Cycling Stability for Li-ion Storage. J. Power Sources 2014, 250, 160-165.（本科URECA研究成果）