Yuanyuan Zhou

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Yuanyuan Zhou

Leibniz institute for crystal growth, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Yuanyuan Zhou is currently junior group leader in Leibniz institute for crystal growth, Berlin Germany.  She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees both at Prof. Yanming Ma´s group in Jilin University. Then, she moved to the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and obtained her Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Luca M. Ghiringhelli and Prof. Matthias Scheffler. In her Ph.D. she focused on the development of ab initio statistical mechanics method to determine the surface phase diagram including anharmonic contributions. Later, she conducted the postdoctoral research with Prof. Jens K. Nørskov in Technical University of Denmark and mainly studied the mechanism of electrochemical ammonia synthesis by closely collaborating with Prof. Ib Chorkendorff´s team.  Her main research interest is to build ab initio quantitative modelling for the process occurring at surfaces and interfaces from the atomistic scale to the macroscopic scale and vice versa.