Shijun ZHAO's Group

Shijun ZHAO Dr. Shijun ZHAO's Group

Dr. Shijun Zhao is an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Zhao received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics in 2008 and his Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering in 2013, both from Peking University. His Ph.D. research centered on the radiation effects in ceramics and low-dimensional materials based on ab initio methods and molecular dynamics simulations. After graduation, Dr. Zhao conducted his postdoctoral research at the College of Engineering at Peking University for two years, with a focus on excited electron dynamics in materials under high-energy ion or laser irradiation using ab initio methods. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong in 2018, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working on the irradiation effects in concentrated solid-solution alloys. Dr. Zhao’s current research group works on Computational Defect Properties. Specifically, his group aims to understand defect thermodynamics, defect production, defect migration, and defect evolution in different materials under deformation or irradiation conditions. The defects considered include point defects, impurities, dislocations, stacking faults, grain boundaries, and surfaces, etc. The materials concerned including nuclear structural materials and nuclear fuels spanning from metallic alloys to ceramics. Dr. Zhao has authored and co-authored more than 50 technical papers with more than 3000 citations in the field of defect properties in materials.

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Defect evolution in high-entropy materials

Predict mechanical properties of high-entropy materials via machine learning

Deep-learning interatomic potential

High-efficient materials for energy conversion

High-efficient materials for hydrogen storage

Heterogeneous catalysis

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