Appointments
Post-doc, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University (from November 2009)

Education
Ph.D. Physics (2009), the University of Chicago
B.S. Physics (2000), the Pennsylvania State University

Awards
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellowship (from July 2010)
GAANN Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (2000-2003)

Selected Publications
Pluripotency factors in embryonic stem cells regulate differentiation into germ layers
M. Thomson, S. J. Liu, L.-N. Zou, Z. Smith, A. Meissner, and S. Ramanathan, Cell 145, 815 (2011).

Glassy dynamics in thermally-activated list sorting
L.-N. Zou and S. R. Nagel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257201 (2010).

Spectral responses in granular compaction
L.-N. Zou, Phys. Rev. E 81, 031320 (2010).

The packing of granular polymer chains
L.-N. Zou, X. Cheng, M. L. Rivers, H. M. Jaeger, and S. R. Nagel, Science 326, 409 (2009).

Myelin figures: the buckling and flow of soap
L.-N. Zou, Phys. Rev. E 79, 060512 (2009).

Stability and growth of single myelin figures
L.-N. Zou and S. R. Nagel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 138301 (2006).

Confined multilamellae prefer cylindrical morphology: a theory of myelin formation
J.-R. Huang, L.-N. Zou, and T. A. Witten, Eur. Phys. J. E 19, 399 (2006).