About
Yuanyuan (Alvin) Zhou joined HKUST as an Associate Professor (with Tenure) under the university’s prestigious “30 for 30” global talent acquisition scheme. He obtained his B.S. & M.S. from Xi’an Jiaotong University and Ph.D. from Brown University, all in materials science and engineering. He has published 150 journal papers, with 17,000 Google citations and 65 H-index, and edited one international Wiley book <Halide Perovskite Semiconductors>.
Research Interests
Perovskite semiconductors and (opto)electronicsMultimodal characterization at high spatio-temporal resolutionHigh-throughput synthesis, screening, and discovery of new semiconductors
Last updated: 4/10/2026