Peng Xiu is male and borns in 1982. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Shandong University (co-cultured with the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese  Academy of Sciences) in 2009. He joined Department of Engineering Mechanics & Soft  Matter Research Center, Zhejiang University in 2011, after spending two years working with Prof. Xiaowei Tang (Department of Physics, Zhejiang University,) and Dr. Ruhong Zhou (IBM Thomas   J. Watson Research Center,USA) on molecular dynamics of biological/chemical/nanoscale systems. His current research fields include biomechanics, biophysics, and chemical physics. He has published 31 peer-reviewed papers (SCI), with 4 papers published in Top Journals (ZJU 100), namely, Nature Nanotechnology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of theUnited States of America, and Physical Review Letters.

Career History & Education:

Jan. 2014―present: Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University

Oct. 2011―Dec. 2013: Assistant professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University

July 2009―Sept. 2011: Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Xiaowei in Department of Physics, Zhejiang University (also working with Dr. Ruhong Zhou in IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Sept. 2004―June 2009: Ph.D., Department of Physics, Shandong University. Major: Atomic and Molecular Physics; Supervisors: Profs. Ying Dai (Shandong University) and Haiping Fang (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Sept. 2000―June 2004: Undergraduate, Department of Physics, Shandong University. Academic Degree: B.S.; Major: Physics

Research Interests:

i) Membrane biophysics and cell mechanics

ii) Molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding and dynamics