Xiangqun Zeng
Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering , University of Missouri Columbia
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Oakland University
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Zeng lab has moved to Univ. of Missouri Columbia on Jan. 1, 2024. https://chemistry.missouri.edu/people/zeng
Zeng lab has moved to Univ. of Missouri Columbia on Jan. 1, 2024. https://chemistry.missouri.edu/people/zeng
News about Zeng's new lab in Univ. of Missouri , Columbia
Zeng lab has new Ph.D. graduate students and postdoc position openings. The research areas in Zeng lab are electrochemistry, analytical chemistry and chemical and biomedical engineering. Students and postdocs at Zeng lab carry out fundamental and applied research in material and interface science. The research aims to study fundamental interfacial phenomena, particularly to understand, design and control of molecular characters at electrode surfaces for developing next generation detection technologies (i.e., novel analytical methods and techniques, chemical and biosensors). The goal is to bridge fundamental research of interfaces of potential utility to solve important analytical challenges for environmental, health and energy applications.
Zeng lab has opening for one to two postdoctoral fellows. Expertise in at least one of the following areas is preferred: electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, chemical sensor and biosensors.
Zeng lab has multiple slots for PhD students in Chemistry Programs. A few slots in chemical and biomedical engineering program.
Zeng lab has openings for undergraduate and master students interested in getting research training in Zeng lab for chemistry and chemical and biomedical engineering programs.
Please email Dr. Zeng at xzeng@mail.missouri.edu for details.
Recent news
● Dr. Zeng is invited to serve as discussion leader of 2026 Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Conference for session of “The Field as the Lab: Sensing in Agriculture” on Tuesday, June 23. This conference will be held on Sunday, June 21, 2026 to Friday, June 26, 2026 at the beautiful Salve Regina University at Newport, Rhode island. https://www.grc.org/bioanalytical-sensors-conference/2026/
● Dr. Zeng will chair two symposium sessions at Pittcon 2026, March 7-11, 2026 | San Antonio, TX, USA | Henry B. González Convention Center.
(1) Micro/nano gas sensor for health, energy, and environmental applications
Chairs: Xiangqun Zeng (Univ. Missouri Columbia) and Xudong Fan (Univ. of Michigan)
(2) Methods and tools for biointerface design and characterization for biomedical applications
Chairs: Xiangqun Zeng (Univ. Missouri Columbia) and Zhan Chen (Univ. of Michigan)
● Congratulations to Fatemeh Fathi who successfully defended her Ph. D. thesis entitled " Electrochemical Characterization of Bimetallic Thin Films and Semiconductor Interfaces for Advanced Sensing Applications " at University of Missouri Columbia on July 16th, 2025. Fatemeh will move on as a senior scientist at a Biotech company to carry out transnational R &D research.
● Congratulations to Saamia Salik who successfully defended her M.S. thesis entitled "Design and Characterization of Biointerfaces for Label-Free Electrochemical Biosensor Development for Clinical Biomarker Detection" at University of Missouri Columbia on April 18, 2025. Saamia completed her M.S. thesis research in less than one and half years.
● Congratulations to Tobias Glossman who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Computational study of ionic liquids/electrode interfacial reactions for environmental and energy applications" at Univ of Missouri on Oct. 2, 2024. We are delighted that Nobel Laureate Ronald Hoffmann attended Tobias defense, Tobias is the principal system engineer at Mercede Benze and the vice chair for electrochemical society Detroit section.
● Congratulations to Tongtong Chen who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis in Electrochemistry of transition metal thin films: fundamentals and applications at Univ. Missouri on July 17, 2024. Also Congratulations for Tongtong obtaining a competitive industry analytical chemist position at Integrated Laboratory Providers at Michigan starting August, 2024.
● Dr. Zeng chaired of two organized sessions in Pittcon 2025, the biggest analytical chemistry conference in US (March 1-5, 2025, Boston). Each session will have 7 invited distinguished speakers
Design and characterize Biofunctionalized surfaces for analytical applications, Co-Chair : Zhan Chen, Professor of Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor
3/4/2025 beginning at 9:30 AM and ending at 12:00 PM at room 106 at Boston Convention Center
Design of dynamic Solid/Liquid Interface for sensing and remediation of environmental pollutants integrating experimental and AI approaches, Co-chair : Dr. Nianqiang Nick Wu, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Session time: 3/3/2025 beginning at 9:30 AM and ending at 12:00 PM at room 108 at Boston Convention Center
June 12, 2022, Zeng group ( Dr. Xiaojun Liu, Dr. Arun Sridhar, Dr. Sudeshna Mondal, Fatemeh Fathi, Tongtong Chen, Tobias Glossmman, Dreana William, etc. )
and collaborators ( Dr. Yong Xu ( Wayne State University), Dr. Zhihai Li ( Ball State University) and Dr. Carol Korzeniewski ( Texas Tech. Univ.)
What's New
Dr. Zeng chaired two organized symposium sessions in Pittcon 2024, Feb. 24-28, 2024 at Beautiful San Diego, California, USA. Pittcon is the biggest analytical conference in the United States.
https://pittcon.org/
New Advances in Bio-functionalized Surfaces and their Biomedical Applications. Co-chair, Dr. Zhan Chen from Univ. of Michigan.
Enabling the next Analytical Chemistry Revolution: Advancing Techniques to Measure Single Species at a High spatiotemporal resolution, Co-Chair, Dr. Bo Zhang from the University of Washington Seattle.
Dr. Zeng chaired an ACS symposium under the Division of Analytical Chemistry at ACS Spring 2024, New Orleans, March 17-21, 2024.
Electrochemical Sensors for Healthcare and Environment, Co-chair: Dr. Jinxing Li at Michigan State University
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION ACS Spring 2024 - American Chemical Society
Dr. Zeng will serve on the Technical Program Committee of the International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose 2024 in Grapevine, TX, USA on May 19 – 22, 2024.https://www.isoen2022.org/
Dr. Zeng has chaired three organized symposium sessions in Pittcon 2023, March 18-23, 2023, in Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA. Pittcon is the biggest analytical conference in the United States.
https://pittcon.org/pittcon-2023/
Novel sensing materials, transducers, and data algorithms for ubiquitous monitoring of gases in the era of Internet of Things and Industrial Internet, Co-chair Radislav A. Potyrailo From GE.
Point-Of-Care Devices for Testing COVID-19 and Emerging Diseases, Co-chair, Nianqiang (Nick) Wu, University of massachusetts
Micro- and Nano-Probes and Multifunctional Systems for Enhancing Theranostics, Co-chair, Nianqiang (Nick) Wu, University of massachusetts
All three sessions have outstanding speakers from Academic, Industry and government laboratories such as Timothy M. Swager from MIT, Jeff Wang and Netz Arroyo from John Hopkins, Yi Lu from Univ. of Texas Austin, Dana Spencer from Michigan State Univ. Kevin Johnson from Naval Research Laboratory etc.
Sept. 2022
Research scientist and/or Postdoctoral Position Available immediately at Distinguished Professor Xiangqun Zeng’s Research Group at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, United State
Research Scientist: The research scientist can be either a postdoctoral or research assistant professor level at Oakland University. He or /she will engage in research at a full-time basis, present results and prepare manuscripts for publications. In addition, for research assistant professor position, he or she can carry out independent research with the support of the faculty mentor as well as collaborative activities with external researchers. It is expected that the research scientist has strong communication skills and can play key roles in strengthening the quality and productivity of the scientific work of the overall research team working on the research projects such as he/or she is responsible for training the graduate students and/other new postdocs to facilitate each of the group members to realize their full potential in creative research and learning environment.
The research scientist positions are funded by several National Institute of Health grants to develop in vitro and/or in vivo miniaturized biosensors for applications in environmental and health monitoring of environmental pollutants and clinical diagnostic of diseases (i.e., heart, cancer and neurodegenearative diseases). These projects are highly interdisciplinary with a team of health and medical researchers as well as sensor engineers at Oakland University, Wayne State University, Michigan State University and University of Michigan. The goal in these projects is to develop next generation chemical sensor and biosensors for real-time in vitro, ex vivo, in vivo, in situ detection of important chemical and bioanalytes with high temporal, spatial resolution and sensitivity. The candidates’ knowledge about electrochemistry (redox chemistry), surface chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry and biosensors are strongly encouraged to apply.
Dr. Zeng is a strong educator and mentor. She has trained over 80 students/postdoc/visiting scholar (24 postdocs, 9 visiting professors including one Fulbright scholar, 12 M.S. thesis and 8 Ph.D. thesis, over 20 undergraduate students, as thesis co-advisor for 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. student at other institutions). Seventeen of them are academic professors/scientists in US and other countries and many of them are industry scientists and leaders. Dr. Zeng was featured in a book entitled “Women Who Changed the World the Journey and the Joy” (Sunbury Press Inc. 2015). Details of Dr. Zeng research, education and service activities can be found in her website: www.oakland.edu/~zeng
Please submit your CV with names of three references to Dr. Xiangqun Zeng , Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309 by e-mail: zeng@oakland.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately. Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.
Other potential postdoc positions starting 2022 : (1) Point of care in vitro biosensor development for heart disease and infectious disease monitoring, and (2) developing in situ, in vivo or ex vivo real-time and continuous chemical sensor technology for neuroscience and brain research; (3) developing in situ soil sensors for monitoring soil green house gas emission.
Graduate students opening: Strong graduate students who are interested in pursue a Ph.D. in Zeng's lab are encouraged to communicate with Dr. Zeng. Ph.D. students will be trained in many areas including analytical chemistry, electrochemistry, electroanalytical chemistry and bioanalytical chemistry, chemical engineering and bioengineering, see lists of Dr. Zeng's menteers in academic and industry positions in the teaching tab at this website.
Dr. Zeng won the Most Research Active Award at Oakland Univ. given to the investigator who got highest number of the grants in a given year. See details at https://www.oakland.edu/oumagazine/news/research/ou-honors-innovative-engaging-researchers-at-annual-town-hall
Dr. Zeng won the Most Active Grant Seeker Award, and another honor is that this award will be named after Dr. Zeng in the future
Dr. Zeng is the Symposium Chair for "Point-Of-Care Devices for Testing COVID-19 and Emerging Diseases", one day symposium for Pittcon 2022, March 6th – Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dr. Nianqiang (Nick) Wu at University of Massachusetts Amherst is the co-chair of this symposium.
Dr. Zeng is the network session chair for " Advancing sensor technology to market for real world human impacts " for Pittcon 2022, March 6th – Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dr. Peter Hesketh, Professor of mechanical Engineering at George Tech. and Dr. Joseph Stetter, President of KWJ engineering are the co-chair for this networking session.
Dr. Zeng is the guest editor for Special issues of “Biomedical Sensing at Chemical Interfaces using Nanomaterials” in Frontiers in Chemistry (www.frontiersin.org), 2021 , submission is open.
Dr. Zeng was an invited speaker at international celebration of women and girls in science on Feb.11, 2021. The link to the article: https://www.oakland.edu/oumagazine/news/cas/2021/ous-xiangqun-zeng-to-speak-at-international-celebration-of-women-and-girls-in-science-
Dr. Zeng gave a Vebleo webinar for her work on chemical and biosensors. The video lecture has been publish on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_XXlkhk4fgCgfrClRHwrlw/videos or
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_XXlkhk4fgCgfrClRHwrlw/search?query=xiangqun%20zeng
Dr. Zeng won 2020 Frank Giblin Lifetime Achievement Award. It is given to the PI with the most funding over the course of their career at Oakland University.
Congratulations for Jacqueline Paul for 2019 Most Outstanding Thesis Award of her MS thesis entitled "“A Study of Antibiotic Resistance Effects on the Electrochemical Detection of Escherecia Coli" .
Congratulations for Postdoc Dr. Arun Sridhar to be invited for an interview on March 5th, 2020 for a Tenure-track analytical chemistry position at Cameron University in Lawton, OK !
Congratulations for Lu Lin who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in electrochemical gas sensor development.
Congratulations for Jacqueline Paul and Ian Archbold for successfully defended their MS thesis for biosensor developments.
Ke Qu, recent Ph.D. graduate from Dr. Zeng's lab won 2019 best Ph.D. thesis award for his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Condutive polymers and their application in electrochemistry, bio-sensing and environmental analysis" at Oakland University. Congratulations to Ke Qu.
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