Xiaolin Zheng

Xiaolin Zheng is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University. She received her B.S. in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University (2000), her Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University (2006), and her postdoctoral training in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.

Her research group focuses on the development and testing of novel materials for energy and propulsion applications, ranging from combustion synthesis of novel nanomaterials, designing electrocatalysts and devices to convert water into hydrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen peroxides, to developing new metal/polymer composites as high energy density fuels for propulsion applications.

She is a senior fellow of Stanford Precourt Institute of Energy, and a faculty co-director of Stanford Hydrogen Initiative. Her selected awards include the Resonate Award from Resnick Institute at Caltech (2016), Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship (2015), MIT Technology Review (2013), one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers by the Foreign Policy Magazine (2013), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House (2009).