现任职务：现任中国科学院新疆天文射电研究室副主任、新疆天文台学位委员会成员。

主要研究内容：关注脉冲星、中子星及奇异星等科学问题，通过研究极端致密物质的天体物理表现来探索强相互作用物质的基本性质。具体包括：致密物质性质与致密星结构、演化性质等。

主持、参与科研项目：

获奖情况：

1. 2017年，新疆维吾尔自治区科技进步奖一等奖（第四）

代表性科研成果（著作、论文、专利等）：

     1.Xia Zhou^*, Hao Tong, Cui Zhu, Na Wang, Dependence of pulsar death line on the equation of state, MNRAS, 2017, 472(2): 2403-2409

     2.Xiao-Feng Cao, Yun-Wei Yu, Xia Zhou, Compact Binary Mergers and the Event Rate of Fast Radio Bursts, The Astrophysical Journal, 2018, 858:89 (7pp)

     3.En-Ping Zhou, Xia Zhou, Ang Li, Constraints on interquark interaction parameters with GW170817 in a binary strange star scenario, 2018, Physical Review D, 97, 083015

     4.Cui Zhu, Xia Zhou^*, Na Wang, Rotational energy conversion and thermal evolution of neutron stars, Chinese Physics C, 2017, 41(12), 125104

     5.Ang Li^*, Zhen-Yu Zhu, Xia Zhou, New Equations of State for Postmerger Supramassive Quark Stars, 2017, ApJ, 844, 41

     6.Jianping Yuan^*, R. N. Manchester, Na Wang, Jinbo Wang, Xia Zhou, Wenming Yan, Zhiyong Liu, Pulse profiles and timing of PSR J1757？2421, MNRAS, 2017, 466(1), 1234-1241

     7.Guojie Cao^*, Xia Zhou, Na Wang, The role of magnetic damping in the r-mode evolution of accreting neutron stars, SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2015, 58(3): 039502

     8.Zheng Xiaoping^*, Zhou Xia, Yang Shu-hua, Novel non-equilibrium phase transition caused by non-linear hadronic-quark phase structure, Physics Letters B, 2014, 729: 79–84

     9.Xia Zhou^*, Miao Kang, Na Wang, Effect of magnetic field decay on the chemical heating of cooling neutron stars, Chinese Physics C, 2013, 37(8): 085101

     10. Xia ZHOU, Miao KANG and Na WANG, Mutual influence of magnetic field decay and thermal evolution of rotational neutron stars , Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 291, 2012

     11.Jianping Yuan, Richard N. Manchester, Na Wang, Xia Zhou, Zhiyong Liu, & Zhifu Gao,A very large glitch in PSR B2334+61, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2010, 719:L111–L115.  

     12. Xiaoping Zheng, Xia Zhou, Yunwei Yu, Thermal evolution of a rotating strange star in the color superconductivity phase, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 2006, 371, 1659-1662.

     13. Xia Zhou, Lingzhi Wang & Aizhi Zhou, Thermal Evolution of Strange Stars, Pub.Astro.Soc.Pac. 119:1367-1370(2007), December

     14.Xia Zhou, Haijun Tian & Xiaoping Zheng, Bulk Viscosity of Quark Matter in Magnetic Field, High Ener. Phys. Nucl. Phys. 2017, 30, 1.

     15.Xia Zhou, Xiaoping Zheng, Non-leptonic Weak Interaction with Quark Matter in Magnetic Field, High Ener. Phys. Nucl. Phys. 2007, 30, 11.