Dr. Xiaohai Zhou

Dr. Xiaohai Zhou is a senior scientist at the chair of building physics at the ETH Zürich since January 2021. He has been a lecturer at ETH Zürich since 2018. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zürich in 2015. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Multiscale Studies in Building Physics at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) from 2015 to 2017. Then he worked as a scientist at the same institute from 2018 to 2020. He is an editorial board member of the journal of building physics, member of working group W080 (Prediction of Service Life of Building Materials and Components) at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), and scientific committee member of the 15th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components (DBMC 2020). He received the best paper award at the CESBP2016 conference. He was principal investigator for the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research on Future Energy Efficient Buildings & Districts (SCCER FEEB&D) project: Interior thermal insulation for historical buildings. His research focuses on coupled moisture and heat transport in building materials and components, hygrothermal modeling, building simulation, energy-efficient buildings, building retrofitting, the durability of building materials, freeze-thaw damage problems, and the influence of climate change on the built environment. He has experience both in experiments and modeling in a multiscale framework from porous materials to buildings to the built environment.