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Professor Xuehua Zhang completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. During his doctoral studies, he worked as an Endeavour Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University, and later held a postdoctoral position with Professor William Ducker at the University of Melbourne. He was awarded the prestigious ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship and the ARC Future Fellowship. In September 2017, he moved to Edmonton to join the University of Alberta as a Professor in Chemical Materials Engineering. He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and received the 2025 IUPAC Distinguished Woman in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Award, reflecting his international recognition in the field. His research encompasses colloid and interface sciences, as well as nanomaterials in chemical engineering, and he leads a collaborative research group with highly motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. His research interests include cold plasma activation technology for wastewater treatment, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy-based wearable sensors for gout monitoring, and computational fluid dynamics simulations of complex flows.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management