Xuehua Zhang

Xuehua Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Engineering. She holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and serves as an Associate Editor for Soft Matter, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

• Education: PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xujiahui Campus)
• Prior Appointments: Endeavour Research Fellow at Australian National University; Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Melbourne

Her research spans colloid and interface sciences, nanomaterials, and chemical engineering, focusing on:

• Cold plasma activation (MB-CPA) for wastewater treatment and sustainable agriculture
• Evaporation enhanced by renewable energy
• Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
• Liquid-liquid phase separation and nanodroplets
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations

Notable awards include:

• Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship
• ARC Future Fellowship

She leads a collaborative research group involving graduate students and postdocs in Soft Matter & Interfaces Research Group.