Jiawei Zhou

Prof. Jiawei Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Hong Kong. He received his BS in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 2013, and his MS and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015 and 2019, respectively. After completing his postdoctoral scholarship at Stanford University, he joined HKU as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include first-principles computation, thermal management, energy transport physics, and nanomaterials for clean energy and sustainability. He is also an HKU-100 Scholar. His work has been recognized with the Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane Award for Outstanding Thesis from MIT and the Best Poster Award at the ASME Society-Wide Micro and Nano Technology Forum from IMECE (2019).

Jiawei Zhou is an assistant professor specializing in energy conversion, materials synthesis, and thermal management. Their research focuses on developing advanced materials with enhanced thermal properties for energy applications. Zhou's work includes phonon engineering to achieve extreme thermal conductivity, thermoelectric materials with high performance, and nanostructured polymers with metal-like thermal conductivity. They also explore electron-phonon interactions and phonon scattering mechanisms to optimize thermoelectric properties. Additionally, Zhou investigates phonon hydrodynamics and heat conduction in materials like graphite and half-Heuslers. Their research has implications for energy efficiency, thermal management, and sustainable technologies.