Shifeng Zhou

Shifeng Zhou received his PhD degree (2008) in Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University. He spent one year at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a research assistant (2007). He joined Hokkaido University as a postdoctoral researcher (2008-2009), and then moved to Kyoto University as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011). Shifeng Zhou was an associate professor at Zhejiang University (2011-2013). Since 2013, he has been a full professor at South China University of Technology.

Zhou’s primary research focus is on photonic glasses and glass-ceramics. He has over 100 publications in prestigious international journals, including Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Funct. Mater., Prog. Mater. Sci. and ACS Nano. He is a member of the TC07 committee: Crystallization & GC, International Commission on Glass (ICG). He is the recipient of the Motoharu Kurata Award of the Ceramic Society of Japan.