Curriculum Vitae for Xiaodong Zou - Department of Materials and ...

Curriculum Vitae for Xiaodong Zou
Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Born January 4, 1964, Female, married, three children.
Swedish citizen. English, Swedish and Chinese fluent.
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Tel: +46 8 16 23 89
Fax: +46 8 15 21 87
E-mail: xzou@mmk.su.se
A. Professional preparation
Bachelor of Sciences in solid state physics, Peking University, July, 1984.
Master of Sciences in metal physics, Beijing University of Science and Technology, 1986.
Doctor of Philosophy in structural chemistry, Stockholm University, 1995.
Post doc at Institute of Geology, Lund University, 1995 - 1996.
B. Appointments
January 2010-: Chair of the Inorganic and Structural Chemistry Unit, Department of Materials
and Environmental Chemistry, SU.
October 2006 – February 2012: Founder and Director of the Berzelii Centre EXSELENT on
Porous Materials, SU.
April 2006 – October 2011: Founder and Director of the Materials Analysis Centre at Arrhenius
Laboratory (MACAL), SU.
March 2005 -: Professor in Structural Chemistry, at the Department of Materials and
Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University.
Jan. 2001 - December 2005: Research Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA).
March - August 1999: visiting professor at Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Nantes, France.
January 1997 - December 2000: research assistant (docent May 1998) at the Department of
Physical, Inorganic and Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University, supported by NFR.
January 1987 - December 1987: research assistant at the Beijing Laboratory of Electron
Microscopy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
C. Supervision of Ph.D. students and post doctoral fellows:
Graduated Ph.D. students (as main supervisor):
Tony Conradsson, October 2002. Liqiu Tang, May 2005. Kirsten E. Christensen, May 2008.
Daliang Zhang, June 2010, Mikaela Gustafsson, April 2012. Andrew Kentaro Inge, June, 2012.
Present Ph.D. students (as main supervisor):
Peng Guo (April 2012), Fabian Carson (August, 2010), Yifeng Yun (August 2010), Xin Xia
(October 2009), Tom Willhammar (February 2009), Bao-Lin Lee (June 2007, shared with
Organic Chemistry).
Post doctoral fellows:
Thomas Weirich, 1997 - 1999. Kai Sun, 1998 - 2000. Zhimin Mo, 2000. Guo-Yu Yang, 2001.
Mauro Gemmi, 2001 - 2002. Markus Doeblinger, 2002. Yafeng Li, 2002 - 2004.
Lesya Demchenko, 2005. Tie-zhen Ren, 2005 - 2006. Lei Shi, Zhanbing He, 2005 - 2007.
Junliang Sun, 2007 - 2008. Charlotte Bonneau, 2007 - 2008. Mingrun Li, 2007 - 2009.
Daniel Grüner, 2009. Huijuan Yue, 2007 - 2010. Lei Han, 2009 -2010. Max Peskov, 2008 -
2011. Suman Sahoo, 2009 -2011. Wei Wan, 2009 -. Qingxia Yao, 2009 -. Jie Su, 2010 -. Ana
Eva Pletero Prats, 2012-. Haoquan Zheng, 2012-.
D. Scientific Collaborations:
� Prof. Omar Yaghi, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley
� Prof. Avelino Corma, Inst. Tecnología Química, UPV-CSIC, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia
� Dr. Lynne McCusker and Christian Bärlocher, Lab. f. Kristallographie, ETH, Zurich,
� Prof. Michael O'Keeffe, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University.

� Prof. Jianhua Lin, College of Chemistry, Peking University.
� Prof. Shilun Qiu, Prof. Guangshan Zhu and Prof. Jihong Yu, Jilin University.
� Prof. Maria Manuela Lopes Ribeiro Carrott, Departamento de Química & Centro de
Química de Évora, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.
� Prof. Jan-Erling Bäckvall, Prof. Björn Åkemark, Ass. Prof. Belen Martin-Matute,
Department of Organic Chemistry, SU
E. Commissions of trust
Editor of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, since 2010.
Member of the Structure Commission of International Zeolite Association, since 2010.
Member of the Swedish National Committee for Chemistry, since 2012.
Member of the Commission on Electron Crystallography of the International Union of
Crystallography, 2002-2011.
Member of the SIG (Special Interested Group) on Electron Crystallography, European
Crystallographic Association, since 2000.
Board Member of the Inorganic Chemistry Section, Swedish Chemical Society, since 2010.
Member of the Swedish National Committee for Crystallography 2002-2004.
Regular reviewer of more than 15 journals including Nature, Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem.
Soc..
Overseas scientific expert at Fujian Inst. of Research on the Structure of Matter, since 2007.
Director of Berzelii Centre EXSELENT on Porous Materials, Stockholm Univ. 2006-2012.
Direct of Materials Analysis Centre at Arrhenius Laboratory (MACAL), SU, 2006-2011.
Int. scientific expert of the “111” Research Project of China, Jilin University, since 2006.
Guest professor of Jilin University, since 2006 -.
Member of the Evaluation group for grant applications in Chemical Engineering (NT-H), the
Swedish Research Council, 2006, 2008.
Opponent and Member of Ph.D. thesis committee for many Ph.D. students.
Organiser of the International Workshop on Advanced Electron Microscopy and Applications
in Materials Science, Shenyang, China, July 11-15, 2011.
Organiser of the XIV international symposium on relations between homogeneous and
heterogeneous catalysis (ISHHC), September 2009.
Organisers and directors of 8 international schools on electron crystallography in France,
Stockholm, Finland, Poland and Italy, in total 400 participants from 23 different countries.
Organisers of the workshop “Mesoporous crystals and related nano-structured materials”,
June 3-5, 2004, Stockholm.
Organisers of 4 international conferences on electron microscopy and quasicrystals.
F. Prize and invited lectures
Arrhenius-plaketten 2012, given by the Swedish Chemical Society.
K.H. Kuo Award for Distinguished Scientist, 2010.
Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2008.
Tage Erlander Prize for Science and Technology, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences (http://www.kva.se), 2002.
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens särskilda forskartjänster supported by Knut and Wallenberg
Foundation, 2001-2005.
Sigrid Arrhenius stipend in 1995 for one of the best Ph.D. theses in Natural Sciences, SU.
> 100 invited lectures at different laboratories, international schools and conferences.
G. Publications
I have 170 papers, books and book chapters including 136 original scientific papers in refereed
journals, 16 original scientific papers in refereed conference proceedings, 18 books and book
chapters. I have also 7 software for quantitative analysis of high-resolution electron microscopy
images and electron diffraction patterns and one patent on zeolites.
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List of ten selected publications:
1. T. Willhammar, J.L. Sun, W. Wan, P. Oleynikov, D.L. Zhang, X.D. Zou, M. Moliner, J.
Gonzalez, C. Martínez, F. Rey, A. Corma, “Structure and catalytic properties of the most
complex intergrown zeolite ITQ-39 determined by electron crystallography”, Nature Chem. 4
(2012) 188-194.
2. X.D. Zou, S. Hovmöller and P. Oleynikov, “Electron crystallography - Electron microscopy
and electron diffraction”, IUCr texts on crystallography 16, Oxford University Press (2011)
ISBN 978-0-19-958020-0.
3. D.L. Zhang, S. Hovmöller, P. Oleynikov and X.D. Zou, “Collecting 3D electron diffraction
data by the rotation method” Z. Kristallogr. 225 (2010) 94-102.
4. J.L. Sun, C. Bonneau, Á. Cantín, A. Corma, M.J. Díaz-Cabañas, M. Moliner, D.L. Zhang, M.R.
Li and X.D. Zou “The ITQ-37 mesoporous chiral zeolite” Nature 458 (2009) 1154-1157.
5. Y. Han, D.L. Zhang, L. L. Chng, J.L. Sun, L Zhao, X.D. Zou, J.Y. Ying “A tri-continuous
mesoporous material with a silica pore wall following a hexagonal minimal surface”, Nature
Chem. 1 (2009) 123-127.
6. L.Q. Tang, L.Shi, C. Bonneau, J.L. Sun, H.J. Yue, A. Ojuva, B.-L. Lee, M. Kritikos, B. Zoltán,
J. Mink, R. G. Bell and X.D. Zou “A zeolite family with chiral and achiral structures built from
the same building layer” Nature Mater. 7 (2008) 381-385. DOI:10.1038/nmat2169.
7. X.D. Zou and S. Hovmöller “Electron crystallography: imaging and single crystal diffraction
on powders”, Acta Cryst. A64 (2008) 149-160.
8. C. Baerlocher, F. Gramm, L.Massüger, L.B. McCusker, Z.B. He, S. Hovmöller and X.D. Zou,
“Structure of polycrystalline zeolite catalyst IM-5 solved by enhanced charge flipping”,
Science 315 (2007) 1113-1116.
9. X.D. Zou, T. Conradsson, M. Klingstedt, M.S. Dadachov and M. O’Keeffe “A mesoporous
germanium oxide with crystalline pore walls and its chiral derivative", Nature 437 (2005) 716-
719.
10. T.E. Weirich, R. Ramlau, A. Simon, S. Hovmöller and X.D. Zou, “A crystal structure
determined to 0.02 Å accuracy by electron crystallography”, Nature 382 (1996) 144-146.
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Main Research Achievements by Xiaodong Zou
I am a full professor and head of the Inorganic and Structural Chemistry Division, Department of
Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University (SU). In 2006, I received 100
MSEK for ten-years from VR and VINNOVA to build up the Berzelii Center EXSELENT on
Porous Materials and have been the director of EXSELENT October 2006- February 2012.
Electron microscopy has been one of the main techniques for my research for studying
nanostructure materials – electron crystallography. It has several unique advantages in studying
atomic structures of nano-sized crystals. When I started my Ph.D. study in 1988 at SU, the term
“electron crystallography” did not exist. It was commonly believed that electron microscopy could
not be used for determination of unknown inorganic structures, see for example the textbooks
Physical Chemistry, Atkins (1994) and Transmission Electron Microscopy, Williams and Carter
(1990). I have been working on developing electron crystallography and become internationally
leading in this field. We demonstrated that electron crystallography can be used for solving
complex structures to high accuracy (Nature 1996). Now structure determination by electron
crystallography is generally accepted, and the textbooks are being revised.
In 1996, I was awarded a junior researcher position by VR and started to build up a new
research direction on porous materials at SU. Porous materials have wide industrial applications in
catalysis, sorption and separation. My group has been working both on developing new porous
materials and methods for characterization of unknown porous crystals. We have developed more
than 80 new porous and open-framework structures including the world-record in porous oxide
crystals with the largest pores/lowest density (Nature 2005) and one of the few chiral zeolite
structures (Nature Mater. 2008). This work has made it possible to build up the Berzelii Center
EXSELENT on Porous Materials at SU. Now my research has been expanded into other porous
materials and their applications for heterogeneous catalysis and CO2 separation in collaboration
with people from MMK and Department of Organic Chemistry, SU and industrial partners.
Structural characterization has been very important for understanding the properties, and for
developing new materials with unique properties and functions. It has been very challenging to
characterize the structures of porous materials since most crystals are nano-sized. Using electron
microscopy, we discovered the first chiral mesoporous zeolite (Nature 2009) and the first
mesoporous silica with three-interwoven channels (Nature Chem. 2009). We also developed a
general method for determine complex structures and solved the most complex zeolite catalyst that
remained unsolved for ten years (Science 2007). We have developed several new techniques to
make this method more feasible for other scientists. One of them is 3D rotation electron diffraction
(RED) method that allows for the first time to collect complete 3D electron diffraction data within
an hour. The new techniques made it possible to solve the structure of the most complex intergrown
zeolite ITQ-39 and identify an important catalytic application of the material – converting naphtha
to diesel (Nature Chem. 2012). This discovery has gained wide interests and after just published
on-line for one week, our paper has been one of the most downloaded articles in Nature Chemistry.
I have written several books and book chapters on electron crystallography including the first text
book on electron crystallography published by Oxford University Press in 2011. I made major
contributions in the development of seven programs that are used in more than 150 electron
microscopy laboratories all over the world.
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