Department of Materials

Staff

Dr Zhaoxia Zhou BEng, MSc, PhD

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Senior Research Fellow

TEM specialist - Loughborough Materials Characterisation Centre

LMCC Research Support

Background:

Specializing in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Zhaoxia oversees TEM operations in the Loughborough Materials Characterisation Centre (LMCC), Department of Materials. She is also responsible for communicating LMCC’s research capabilities and supporting grant proposal costing to academic research across the campus and providing industrial consultancy services.

Zhaoxia joined Loughborough University in 2010 as an Experimental Officer after completing multiple EPSRC and European Framework projects as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield. She was promoted to Research Fellow in 2015 and to Senior Research Fellow in 2023. With over 20 years of experience in materials characterization and failure analysis using electron, ion, X-ray, and laser-based techniques, Zhaoxia has had regular access to Diamond Light Source and SuperSTEM national facilities since 2004.

Collaborating with academics in both physical and life sciences disciplines, Zhaoxia covers a wide range of materials of interest, including engineering alloys, functional ceramics, photovoltaic thin films, Li-ion batteries, semiconductors, tribological PVD coatings, nanoparticles, Pb-free solders, polymer composites, bacteriophages, and human muscle biopsies. With over 90 journal papers Zhaoxia also holds several UKRI research grants as an independent investigator.

Qualifications:

  • PhD University of Sheffield entitled “Oxidation and Wear of TiAlN/VN Multilayer PVD Hard Coatings”
  • FRMS Fellow of the Royal Microscopy Society
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