Rate My Professor Xiaojing Zhou

Dr. Xiaojing Zhou is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences within the College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. Following her doctoral studies, she held a Research Fellow position at the University of New South Wales from May 2006 to June 2007. Since July 2007, she has been at the University of Newcastle, advancing to Senior Lecturer and serving as a Principal Researcher in the Centre for Organic Electronics. Her research specializations encompass organic semiconductor materials and devices for medical and energy applications. Key fields of research include organic semiconductors (40%), photovoltaic devices such as solar cells (30%), and medical biotechnology diagnostics including biosensors (30%). Keywords associated with her work are organic electronics, physics, sensors, and biosensors. She has been involved in 21 research grants totaling $4,848,563, including projects such as Functional Molecular Systems on the Germanium (001) Surface and The Development of Printable Organic Silicon Hybrid Thin Film Transistors for Bio-compatible Electronics.

Dr. Zhou teaches a variety of undergraduate physics courses at the University of Newcastle, including Introductory Physics to Biological and Life Sciences (Phys1200, since 2007), Advanced Physics (Phys1220, since 2007), Modern Physics (Phys2211, course coordinator since 2020), special relativity, nuclear physics, and particle physics (Phys2212, since 2020), and solid state physics, semiconductor physics, and nanotechnology (Phys3212, since 2020). She has supervised the completion of 26 higher degree research students, comprising PhD and Masters theses from 2011 to 2025, in roles as principal or co-supervisor. Notable publications include 'Nonenzymatic Saliva-Range Glucose Sensing Using Electrodeposited Cuprous Oxide Nanocubes on a Graphene Strip' (2021, ACS Applied Nano Materials), 'Plasmonic enhancement of aqueous processed organic photovoltaics' (2021, RSC Advances), 'Low-Temperature CVD-Grown Graphene Thin Films as Transparent Electrode for Organic Photovoltaics' (2022, Coatings), 'Surfactant Engineering and Its Role in Determining the Performance of Nanoparticulate Organic Photovoltaic Devices' (2022, ACS Omega), 'Controlling Nanostructure in Inkjet Printed Organic Transistors for Pressure Sensing Applications' (2021, Nanomaterials), and 'The Role of the Electron Transport Layer in the Degradation of Organic Photovoltaic Cells' (2022, Coatings). She speaks Chinese as her mother tongue and English fluently.