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：
随着当今量子信息和量子计算技术的迅猛发展，探索低维量子材料的原子结构并在亚原子尺度构筑奇异拓扑结构，是调控其物性并拓展器件应用的重要技术手段。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，为磁性和自旋电子器件的应用奠定了基础；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；3）结合人工智能等图像识别方法，实现了对复杂拓扑结构缺陷的精准识别和处理，为原子级材料拓扑结构分析与调控提供了重要理论基础。迄今在Nature, Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Mater., Nat. Chem., Nat. Synth.,等高水平期刊发表SCI收录论文140余篇，曾入选海外高层次青年人才。论文被引超过一万余次，h指数56。担任InfoMat,Materials Today Electronics等期刊青年编委，及Nat. Commun., JACS等知名期刊审稿人。
目前关注的体系包括（不限于）：
1）球差扫描透射电子显微镜学
2）电镜图像深度分析与处理
3）新型低维材料生长
荣誉与奖励：
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
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，新加坡国立大学，博士全额奖学金
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
2009年，新加坡教育部，本科全额奖学金
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. 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.
3. 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, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-024-00501-z.
4. Fangfang Cui, Kun He, Shengqiang Wu, Hongmei Zhang, Yue Lu, Zhenzhu Li, Jingyi Hu, Shuangyuan Pan, Lijie Zhu, Yahuan Huan, Bo Li, Xidong Duan, Qingqing Ji*, Xiaoxu Zhao*, and Yanfeng Zhang*,Stoichiometry-Tunable Synthesis and Magnetic Property Exploration of Two-Dimensional Chromium Selenides. ACS Nano. 2024, 18, 8, 6276–6285.
5. Ziyi Han#, Xiaocang Han#, Shengqiang Wu, Qing Zhang, Wenchao Hu, Yuan Meng, Yin Liang, Jingyi Hu, Lin Li, Qing Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Dechao Geng*, and Wenping Hu,Phase and Composition Engineering of Self-Intercalated 2D Metallic Tantalum Sulfide for Second-Harmonic Generation. ACS Nano. 2024, 18, 8, 6256–6265.
6. 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.
7. Zijing Zhao#, Zhi Fang#, Xiaocang Han#, Shiqi Yang, Cong Zhou, Yi Zeng, Biao Zhang, Wei Li, Zhan Wang, Ying Zhang, Jian Zhou, Jiadong Zhou, Yu Ye, Xinmei Hou, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Song Gao & Yanglong Hou*,A general thermodynamics-triggered competitive growth model to guide the synthesis of two-dimensional nonlayered materials. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 958.
8. 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.
9. Renji Bian#, Guiming Cao, Er Pan, Qing Liu*, Zefen Li, Lei Liang, Qingyun Wu, Lay Kee Ang, Wenwu Li*, Xiaoxu Zhao*, and Fucai Liu*,High-Performance Sliding Ferroelectric Transistor Based on Schottky Barrier Tuning. Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 4595−460.
10. Jiadong Dan#, Xiaoxu Zhao#, Shoucong Ning, Jiong Lu, Kian Ping Loh, Qian He, N. Duane Loh* and Stephen J. Pennycook*,Learning motifs and their hierarchies in atomic resolution microscopy. Sci. Adv. 2022, 8, eabk1005.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Yaqian Wang#, Longjiang Deng, Qilin Wei, Yi Wan, Zhen Liu, Xiao Lu, Yue Li, Lei Bi, Li Zhang,Haipeng Lu, Haiyan Chen, Peiheng Zhou, Linbo Zhang, Yingchun Cheng*, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Yu Ye, Wei Huang, Stephen John Pennycook, Kian Ping Loh, and Bo Peng*,Spin-Valley Locking Effect in Defect States of Monolayer MoS2. Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 2129-2136.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Bijun Tang#, Jiadong Zhou, Pingping Sun, Xiaowei Wang, Lichun Bai, Jiadong Dan, Jiefu Yang, Kun Zhou, Xiaoxu Zhao*, Stephen J. Pennycook*, and Zheng Liu*,Phase-Controlled Synthesis of Monolayer Ternary Telluride with a Random Local Displacement of Tellurium Atoms. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1900862.
17. Huan Yan#, Xiaoxu Zhao#, Na Guo#, Zhiyang Lyu, Yonghua Du, Shibo Xi, Rui Guo, Cheng Chen, Zhongxin Chen, Wei Liu, Chuanhao Yao, Jing Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Wei Chen, Chenliang Su*, Chun Zhang*, and Jiong Lu*, Atomic engineering of high-density isolated Co atoms on graphene with proximal-atom controlled reaction selectivity. Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 3197.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. Xiaoxu Zhao.; Loh, K. P.; Pennycook, S. J., Electron Beam Triggered Single-Atom Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Materials, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 31, 063001 (2021)
23. 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 250, 160-165.(2014)（本科URECA研究成果）
