"My goal is to understand and control the process-structure-property-performance relationship of materials at the atomistic and nanoscale."

With a physical chemistry background from Nankai University in China, Shuxia Tao started her PhD in 2007 at Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, TU/e. There she learnt Computational Materials Science and earned her PhD in 2011 with a thesis on hydrogen storage in metal hydrides for battery applications. After a short career break to care for her children, from 2013 to 2016, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at NWO physics institute NIKHEF for computational materials design for photodetectors.

With two prestigious personal grants, CSER tenure track grant in 2016 and NWO START-UP grant in 2019, she established her research group Computational Materials Physics at Department of Applied Physics, TU/e. Her research focuses on the devolepment of atomistic and multiscale computational methods and their application in materials used for solar energy applications. Her group is a part of Materials Simulation & Modelling (MSM) and she is a member of Center for Computational Energy Research (CCER).