Shuxia Tao
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Shuxia Tao is an Associate Professor of Computational Materials Physics in the Department of Applied Physics at 在线黑料门. Her research makes use of first-principles methods accelerated by machine learning to design novel semiconducting materials for energy and information generation, storage, and transport. By uniting physics-based insight with data-driven approaches, she bridges quantum mechanics and macroscopic performance, accelerating materials discovery and design. The materials she investigates include, but are not limited to, halides, oxides, nitrides, and dichalcogenides. Within these material systems, she explores quantum phenomena such as emerging optoelectronic effects, chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), and spin electrochemistry (SEC). These materials are optimized for applications in (spin) optoelectronics (e.g., photovoltaics and LEDs, photodetectors), catalysis (e.g., photo-electrolysis and batteries), and spintronics (e.g., energy-efficient information processing).
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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Shuxia Tao earned her master鈥檚 degree in Physical Chemistry from Nankai University in China before starting her PhD at 在线黑料门 in 2007 in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. She completed her PhD in 2011, focusing on compuational materials design for batteries and fuel cells. After a brief career break to care for her children, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the NWO physics institute NIKHEF (Amsterdam) from 2013 to 2016, where she specialized in computational materials design for photodetectors. Since 2016, she has led the Computational Materials Physics Group in the Department of Applied Physics at 在线黑料门 focusing on novel optoelectronic materials, becoming an Assistant Professor in 2018 and an Associate Professor in 2023. Her group is part of the Materials Simulation & Modelling (MSM) and is affiliated with the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES) and Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI).
Shuxia has received several prestigious grants and awards, including the CSER Tenure Track Fellowship (2016), NWO START-UP (2019), NWO VIDI (2022), Aspasia (2023), NWO Open Competition M (2024), and ERC Consolidator (2024). She is an Associate Editor for AI for Science (Institute of Physics Publishing) and Editorial Board Memeber of Applied Physics Letters. She also serves on committee for the national research communities of Nano, Quantum, and Materials Physics and is an member of the Round Table Physics at NWO, the national research council. In these roles, she contributes to shaping the strategic research agenda for materials physics and computational science.
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- editorial task, IOP Publishing