Dr. Zhou

During the first year of my Ph.D. study, I was working as a teaching assistant and rotation research assistant. At that time, I not only focused on teaching basic chemical experiments but also took time to write code for simulating ultrafast dynamics in nanosheet and nanorod, which was very chanlleging and difficult. Since my previous major was fully related to optics and laser, it was really hard to transfer to physical chemistry. But I did it, I found my interest in simulation and calculation of each process happening in nanomaterials, which could help me achieve a deeper understanding of physical properties of nanomaterials.

Based on my own experience, it will be very difficult to transfer from one major to another unless you are really interested and addicted to it. If you could find your interest and creative parts in one major, keep going and you would obtain a very outstanding result!