Department of Physics, Oakland University
276 Hannah Hall, 244 Meadow Brook Road, Rochester MI 48309-4451
Office Phone: (248) 370-3420
Lab Phones: (248) 370-2403 (NMR Lab), (248) 370-3402 (All Labs except the NMR Lab)
Fax: (248) 370-3408 | Email: xia AT oakland.edu | Web: http://www.oakland.edu/~xia/
https://sites.google.com/oakland.edu/xia
(All photos on this site are my owns.)
2026.5.26 Published "Structural anisotropy in celery stalks by microscopic MRI and polarized light microscopy", MRL, vol 6, issue 2, 2026. One of our figures also becomes the cover image/article of the issue (which was our second full color cover in a peer-reviewed journal.)
2025.10.11 Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research, FIOR (which is my fifth Fellow title by an international/national society)
2025.6.30 Congratulation to Amanveer Singh for the successful defense of his PhD dissertation in Medical Physics!
2024.10 Published, “Investigating micro-structural changes in the rabbit knee cartilage post-trauma”, Journal of Anatomy, 245, 740-750 (2024).
2024.9 Listed in the top 2% of scientists globally, published by Stanford University based on statistics from Scopus (Elsevier’s database).
2023.3 Congratulation to Hannah Montebea and Syeda Batool, both successfully defended their PhD dissertations in Medical Physics!
2022.5 A textbook published: Y Xia, “Essential Concepts in MRI: Physics, Instrumentation, Spectroscopy and Imaging” 1st Ed., Wiley-Blackwell (Chichester, West Sussex, UK; ISBN: 9781119798217)
2022.2 Fellow, the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)
2020.8 I become the Director of the Center for Biomedical Research at Oakland University. (sigh!) I am also responsible for the Medical Physics PhD Program in the Department of Physics.
Backyard Biology during the 2020 pandemic..., and some photos of the most recent astronomical events (solar eclipse and Northern lights in 2024)
