Xiaoqin Zou
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Xiaoqin Zou (Chinese: 邹晓勤, born 1967) is a Chinese and American molecular biophysicist whose research concerns the computational modeling of protein–protein interactions and protein–ligand complexes, and the applications of these models in drug discovery and understanding protein function.[1] She is Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri,[2] affiliated with the university's Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Data Science and Informatics, and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center.[1]
Zou was born in 1967 in Changsha. She received a bachelor's degree in physics from Wuhan University in 1987, and continued her studies in physics and biophysics at the University of California, San Diego. There, she received a master's degree in 1989 and completed her Ph.D. in 1993. Her doctoral dissertation, Spatiotemporal Patterns in Excitable and Self-Oscillatory Media, was supervised by Herbert Levine.[3]
She was a postdoctoral researcher with Irwin "Tack" Kuntz at the University of California, San Francisco.[1] After moving circa 2000 to the University of Missouri's Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center as a research assistant professor of biochemistry,[4] she added an affiliation as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2007.[5] She was given a Curators' Distinguished Professorship in 2024.[6]