Associate Professor
Liangzhi Kou

Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Biography
09.2006~10.2011:Graduate student at Institute of NanoScience (INS), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA)03.2010~01.2011: Visiting scholar, in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) with Prof. Changfeng Chen.
10.2011: got PhD degree.
03.2012~11.2014: Alexander von Humboldt research fellow, worked with Professor Thomas Frauenheim at University of Bremen in Bremen Center of Computational Materials Science (BCCMS).
11.2014~07.2015: Postdoctoral Fellow working with Prof. Sean Smith of UNSW, Australia
07.2015—: Lecturer, ARC DECRA fellow in QUT
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Discipline
Other Physical Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Other Chemical Sciences
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Professional memberships and associations
Phone +61 7 3138 2771
Email: liangzhi.kou@qut.edu.au
Location: O-410
Keywords: Density Functional Theory, Nanoribbons and Nanowires, 2D layered materials, Gas sensor, Storage and Conversion, Gas Separation, Charge and Spin Transport, Spin and Magentism, Solar Photovoltaics, Topological insulators
Experience
Professional experience
have been an invited as reviewer for leading journals in the fields including
● Nature Chemistry
● Nature Communications
● ACS Nano
●Adv. Mater.
●Sci. Rep.
● Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
● Carbon
●ACS Appl. Mater. & Inter.
● Nano Res.
● Nanoscale
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS
Prof. Changfeng Chen, Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Prof. Thomas Frauenheim, BCCMS, Germany
Prof. Aijun Du, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dr. Binghai Yan, Max-Plank Institute of chemical physical Dresden, Germany
Dr. Yandong Ma, Prof. Thomas Heine, University Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Sean Smith, Univ. New South Waals (UNSW), Australia
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Liangzhi, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- Title
- Exploring A New Family of 2D Heterogeneous Topological Insulator
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE150101854
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- topological insulator; heterostructure; two-dimensional