[1] She completed her doctoral dissertation, Meshless methods: theory and application in 3D fracture modelling with level sets, in 2010 in the Durham School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, supervised by Charles Augarde.
[8] Zhuang is a coauthor of books including: The Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering – UK (ACME-UK) gave Zhuang their 2010 Zienkiewicz Prize for the best annual doctoral dissertation in computational mechanics.
[5] She was a 2015 recipient of the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award, funding her work as a group leader in the Hannover Institute of Continuum Mechanics.
[2] The International Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics gave her their Fellow Award in 2018, and she was also a 2018 recipient of the Science Prize of the State of Lower Saxony for Young Scientists.
[5] She was a 2019 recipient of the German Curious Mind Researcher Award, in the "materials and active ingredients" category, recognizing her research on the simulation of nano-scale mechanical-energy harvesters "at the intersection of mechanical engineering and materials science".