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Huan-Xiang Zhou is a Professor and LAS Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Department of Physics. He joined UIC in 2017 after prior faculty roles at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Drexel University, and Florida State University. His research focuses on molecular and cellular biophysics, combining theory, computation, and experiment to study biomolecular condensates, membrane-associated proteins, amyloid aggregation, and ion channel mechanisms. His work is supported by NIH grants.
Education: PhD in Physics from Drexel University (1988).
Research Interests: Four main areas include (1) thermodynamic properties of biomolecular condensates, (2) membrane interactions of disordered proteins, (3) amyloid-β oligomer structures, and (4) glutamate receptor ion channel mechanisms. His group develops computational tools like SpiDec for simulating phase separation and ReSMAP for predicting membrane-association propensities.
Grants & Advising: Active in grant review panels and editorial roles. Advises students in interdisciplinary biophysics. Collaborates on drug discovery methods like DIRseq and computational pipelines for biomolecular analysis.
Labs/Teams: Leads the Zhou Group, focusing on computational biophysics with applications to disease mechanisms and cellular processes.
