Prof. Xiuqing Hao

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Hao Xiuqing, female, Ph.D., is a professor and master’s supervisor at the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the director of Tsinghua x-lab. Her research interests include surface texturing and tribology, advanced manufacturing technologies, superhydrophobic surface design and fabrication, and applications of functional microstructured surfaces.

She received her bachelor’s degree from Chongqing University in 2007 and her Ph.D. from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014, where she studied under Academician Lu Bingheng. During her doctoral studies, she participated in a jointly supervised program at Northwestern University in the United States. Since 2015, she has served as a lecturer at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and was promoted to associate professor in 2016. She has led more than 10 research projects, including General and Young Scientist projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a national defense basic research program project, and the Jiangsu Outstanding Young Scholar Fund. She has published more than 90 papers in journals such as Small and JMCA (including five papers with an impact factor above 10), and has been granted more than 20 invention patents.

In 2017, she was awarded the title of Changkong Scholar at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and in 2018 she was selected for the Jiangsu Provincial “Six Talent Peaks” high-level talent program. She has supervised student teams that won the 2022 Provincial Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Design) Team Award. She has also delivered invited talks at international academic conferences on multiple occasions, such as the 39th International Micro/Nano Engineering Conference, and has participated in the review of National Natural Science Foundation of China projects.