Research Interests:
Scientific computing, Numerical analysis, Biophysics modeling
Education:
Ph.D. 2012, Zhejiang University, Computational Mathematics. Advisor: Xiaoliang Cheng
Experience:
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. 2012-2015
Associate Professor, Mathematical Center for Interdisciplinary Research and School of Mathematical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China, 2015 – present
Publication (selected papers):
S. Zhou, Z. Wang, and B. Li, Mean-field Description of Ionic Size Effects with Non-uniform Ionic Sizes: A Numerical Approach, Phys. Rev. E, 84, 021901, 2011.
L. Cheng, B. Li, M. White, and S. Zhou, Motion of a Cylindrical Dielectric Boundary, SIAM J. on Applied. Math., 73(1), 594-616, 2013.
S.Zhou, K. Rogers, C. Oliveira, R. Baron, L. Cheng, J. Dzubiella, B. Li, and J. McCammon, Variational Implicit-Solvent Modeling of Host-Guest Binding: A Case Study on Cucurbit[7]uril, J. Chem. Theory and Comput., 9, 4195-4204, 2013.
B. Li, P. Liu, Z. Xu, and S. Zhou, Ionic Size Effects: Generalized Boltzmann Distributions, Counterion Stratification, and Modified Debye Length, Nonlinearity, 26, 2899-2922, 2013. (Highlight of 2013)
S. Zhou, L. Cheng, J. Dzubiella, B. Li, and J. McCammon, Variational Implicit Solvation with Poisson-Boltzmann Theory, J. Chem. Theory and Comput., 10(4), 1454-1467, 2014.
B. Li, H. Sun, and S. Zhou, Stability of a cylindrical solute-solvent interface: Effect of geometry, electrostatics, and hydrodynamics, SIAM J. Applied Math., 75(3), 907-928, 2015.
S. Zhou, L. Cheng, H. Sun, J. Che, J. Dzubiella, and J. McCammon, LS-VISM: A Software Package for Analysis of Biomolecular Solvation, J. Comput. Chem., 36 (14), 1047-1059, 2015.
B. Li, J. Wen, and S. Zhou, Mean-field Theory and Computation of Electrostatics with Ionic concentration Dependent Dielectrics, Commun. Math. Sci. , 14(1), 249-271, 2016.
