Professor Jian-Min Zuo
Professor Jian-Min Zuo
Jian-Min Zuo is the Director of Monash Center for Electron Microscopy and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics, Monash University. He and his research group specialize in the atomistic structure study of materials, their properties, and the development of electron scattering and imaging techniques. He is the author of Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy: Imaging and Diffraction in Nanoscience, Springer, 2017.
Employment
- 2016-2025 Racheff Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
- 2000-2016, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
- 2017, Lars Onsager Professorship, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- 2013-2015, Chair of Excellence, Nanoscience Foundation, Grenoble, France
- 1991-2000, Assistant and Associate Research Scientist, Physics, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
- 1998, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyushu University, Japan
- 1989-1991, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics and NSF Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
Awards
- Gjonnes Medal, International Union of Crystallography, 2023
- American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Finalist Medal, 2023
- Fellow of Microscopy Society of America, 2018
- Ernst Ruska Prize of the German Society for Electron Microscopy, 2015
- Fellow of American Physical Society, 2014
- Career Award, National Science Foundation, 2005
- Burton Award, Microscopy Society of America, 2001
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997
Qualification
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.), Condensed Matter Physics, Arizona State University, 1989
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Nanjing University, China, 1983
Research Interests
Prof. Jian-Min Zuo is broadly interested in the exploration of materials’ structure-property relationships through advanced characterization. His expertise includes transmission electron microscopy, diffraction and spectroscopy, the study of materials’ defects, thin-films and nanostructures characterization. His current research projects include:
- Advanced alloys, including high entropy alloys, their atomic structure and deformation mechanisms
- Hyperspectral electron scattering, including 4D-STEM, data collection, processing, machine learning, and applications for materials characterization
- Quantum materials, their excitations and magnetic, electronic and structural phases
- Semiconductor device metrology, strain, doping, defects
- Energy materials, including battery materials, and their structural properties and relation to performance
- Low-dimensional materials, their electronic structure and interfaces
See Jian-Min’s research contributions through published book chapters, articles, journal papers and in the media.