Dr Zhou completed her PhD research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She then undertook postdoctoral research on the built environment at two institutes: the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS, a joint program between the Singapore government and UC Berkeley) and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) at the University of Melbourne. She pursues research through a combination of laboratory experiment, field monitoring, data analysis and numerical modelling. 

Each year I admit students for interdisciplinary research investigating the built environment and sustainability. This research calls on methods from lab and field experiments, numerical modeling, and data analysis. I am particularly recruiting candidates interested in the following topics. Of course, I am open to new research ideas. Just send me your thoughts and we can start from there.

• Energy-efficient building and rating system (e.g. Passivhaus, Green star, net-zero, etc.)
• Climate change and Indoor environmental quality (e.g. impacts from bushfire, extreme weather, etc.)
• Building applied and integrated renewables (e.g. BAPV, BIPV, etc.)
• Bioaerosol fate and transport (e.g. impacts from COVID-19, bioaerosol transmission in aged-care facilities, etc)
• Human factor of indoor environment (e.g. thermal and visual comfort, occupant behavior, perceived quality, biometric response, etc.)
• Wireless sensing network for environmental monitoring and data analysis (e.g. IoT, data fusing, etc.)
• Sustainable urban infrastructure (e.g. LCA, embodied emissions, etc.)

Interested candidates should email a CV, unofficial transcripts, and if required, English language test score. Please ensure that you meet the Monash University's admission criteria at the following link: www.monash.edu/graduate-research/faqs-and-resources/content/chapter-two/2-1. Experience in one of the following fields will be at an advantage: building energy modeling, daylighting and lighting design, parametric design with visual programming language, programming skills in Python or similar, QGIS platform or similar, openLCA and Ecoinvent. I also encourage candidates to send through a brief research proposal (max 1 page). It will be a great first step towards graduate school admission.