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# Current Position

2020.9- Professor

Industrial and Materials Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Research area: Alloy design, and structural and functional properties of high entropy alloys 

# Previous Positions

2017.5- 2020.8 Associate Professor

Industrial and Materials Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2016.6- 2017.4 Associate Professor

Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2013.4- 2016.5 Assistant Professor

Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2011.5-2013.3 Research Fellow

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Department, City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2009.5-2011.5 Postdoctoral Fellow

Mechanical Engineering Department, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2009.11-2010.2 Visiting Researcher

WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Japan

# Education

2016.3 Docent in High Entropy Materials (educational title)

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

2005.10-2009.3 D. Phil in Materials Science 

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

2002.9-2005.6 M. Eng in Materials Science and Engineering 

Central South University, Changsha, China

1998.9-2002.6 B. Eng in Powder Metallurgy

Central South University, Changsha, China

# Invited Lectures

2024.4 Keynote speaker at IIAP-HEA (Industry Insights and Academia Perspectives on High Entropy Alloys) 2024, Jodhpur, India

2023.7 Invited lecture at Powder Metallurgy Research Institute, Central South University, China

2023.5 Invited speaker at Directionally Solidified Eutectics Conference – VII, Istanbul, Turkey

2023.5 Invited speaker at ISE Research Seminar Series, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2022.11 Invited speaker at ASM Finland High Entropy Alloys webinar, Finland

2022.11 Invited external speaker at ECMetAC (European Integrated Center for the Development of Metallic Alloys & Compounds) 2022, High-Entropy Alloys: From Basic Studies to Industrial Applications, Split, Croatia.   

2022.5 Invited speaker at DGM (German Materials Society) Symposium "High Entropy Alloys: Potential for industrial applications", Dresden, Germany

2022.3 Invited speaker at DGM (German Materials Society) workshop on Functional High Entropy Alloys, Bochum, Germany

2021.10 Invited speaker at Jacob Wallenberg Foundation Seminar, Slottsviken SKF, Gothenburg, Sweden

2021.10 Invited lecture for Materials Science PhD students at Northwestern Polytechnical University (online), Xi’an, China  

2021.9 Invited lecture at Tandem Webinar series, Area of Advance Materials Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

2021.8 Invited lecturer at the International Summer School on Structural and Functional Materials (online), Changsha, China  

2021.5 Invited speaker at Thermec’2021 Virtual Conference, organized by TU Graz, Austria

2021.3 Invited external speaker at ECMetAC (European Integrated Center for the Development of Metallic Alloys & Compounds) on-line workshop, High-Entropy Alloys: From Basic Studies to Industrial Applications  

2020.1 Invited lecture at Department of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

2019.9 Invited lecturer at the 5th Summer School of Condensed Matter on Energy, Szczecin, Poland  

2019.7 Invited speaker at ISMANAM (International Symposium of Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials)-2019, Chennai, India

2018.12 Invited speaker at the 2nd International Conference on High-Entropy Materials, Jeju Island, South Korea (session chair)

2108.10 Invited lecture at Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic 

2018.5 Invited speaker for voestalpine Synergy Platform 2018, Vienna, Austria

2018.4 Invited lecture at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2018.3 Invited lecture at College of Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey 

2017.9 Invited speaker for EUROMAT 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece (session chair)

2017.8 Invited lecture at Material Science and Characterization section, Wind Energy Department, Denmark University of Technology, Roskilde, Denmark

2017.7 Invited speaker for FiMPART (Frontiers in Materials Processing Applications, Research and Technology) 2017, Bordeaux, France

2016.11 Invited speaker for International Conference on High-Entropy Materials, Hsinchu, Taiwan (session chair)

2015.8 Invited lecture at European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk, Netherlands

2014.3 Invited lecture at Sandvik Coromant, Stockholm, Sweden

2013.11 Invited lecture at Materials Microstructure division, Applied Physics Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

# Training on Pedagogy, Leadership and Entrepreneurship

2013-2015 Diploma of Higher Education, completing 18 higher education credit points on courses dedicated to theory and practice of teaching, learning and supervision, Chalmers University of Technology

2014-2015 Leadership Program for Chalmers Areas of Advance Assistant Professors, a program to support trainees to become critical independent researchers at the highest international level

2013-2014 Mentor4Research Program (now Mentors2Research), supported by IVA (The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering) and aiming for a catalyst for commercializing academic research results

# Commission of Trust

2024- Member of International Scientific Committee, Center of Excellence NOMATEN, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland

2024- Review panelist for research applications in mechanics, structural and materials engineering submitted to the Research Council of Finland, Finland

2023 External evaluator, for docent qualification assessment at Karlstad University

2023- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to M-ERA.NET, European Union

2023-2024 Board member, Swedish Neutron Scattering Society

2023- Editorial board, European Journal of Materials, Taylor & Francis

2023 External reviewer, for Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) at Department of Industrial and System Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

2023- Editorial board, journal Metals, MDPI

2023- Editorial board, journal Materials Research Express, IOP Publishing

2023 International advisory Committee member, the 3rd World Congress on High Entropy Alloys (HEA 2023), Pittsburg, USA

2023 Organizer for symposium High Entropy Alloys at Euromat 2023, Frankfurt, Germany 

2022 External reviewer, for faculty appointment/postdoc researchers recruitment assessment at University West

2022 External reviewer, for faculty appointment assessment at Zhejiang University, China

2022- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to the German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany

2022- Editorial advisory board, journal High Entropy Alloys & Materials, Springer 

2021- Associate Editor, Structural Materials section within Frontiers in Materials and Frontiers in Built Environment, Frontiers

2021- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Czech Republic

2021 External reviewer, for research proposals applying to the Research Council of Norway (RCN)

2021 External reviewer, for faculty appointment assessment at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

2021 Organizer for symposium High Entropy Alloys at Euromat 2021, Virtual Conference

2021 Organizer for symposium Mechanochemical Coupling in Chemical Treatment and Materials Degradation—Modeling and Experimentation at MRS 2021 Virtual Spring Meeting

2021 Remote external reviewers for the ADMIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action, hosted by the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research

2021- Editorial board, journal Advanced Powder Materials, Elsevier

2020- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria

2020 External reviewer, for faculty appointment assessment at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

2020 External reviewer, for faculty appointment assessment at American University of Sharjah, UAE

2020 External reviewer, for faculty appointment assessment at Dalarna University

2020- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel

2020- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to the French National Research Agency (ANR), France

2020 Editorial board, journal Tungsten, Springer

2020 External reviewer, for research proposals applying to Research Council KU Leuven, Belgium

2020- Opponent or committee members for PhD (Fernando Henrique da Costa/University of Campinas, Brazil; Saber Haratian/DTU, Denmark; Rahul John/Deakin University, Australia; Reliance Jain/Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India; Roopam Jain/ Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India; Angelo Fernandes Andreoli/TU Dresden, Germany; Xuan Yang/Aalto University, Finland; Madan Patnamsetty/Tampere University, Finland) dissertation defenses outside Sweden

2020- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to Department of Energy (DOE/ASCR), United States

2019 Guest editor for a special issue on high-entropy alloys for the journal Frontier in Materials (Frontiers)

2019 Project Peer Reviewer (Lead Reviewer), for the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (SF), Serbia

2019 Remote referee, for ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council

2019 Organizer for symposium High Entropy Alloys at Euromat 2019, Stockholm, Sweden 

2019 Editorial board, journal Materials & Design, Elsevier 

2018- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to The Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), Croatia

2018 Member of Scientific Program Committee for the 2nd International Conference on High-Entropy Materials, Jeju Island, South Korea

2017- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and National Science Center (NCN), Poland 

2017 Guest editor for a special issue on high-entropy alloys for the journal Frontier in Materials (Frontiers)

2017- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), Hungary

2017 Guest editor for a special issue on high-entropy alloys for the journal Powder Metallurgy (Taylor & Francis)

2017 Guest editor for a special issue on high-entropy materials for the journal Materials Chemistry and Physics (Elsevier) 

2016- External reviewer, for research proposals applying to Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, China

2015 Consultant, providing technical consultancy to Indian industries that have interest in potential applications of high-entropy alloys and other metallic materials

2015- Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group

2013- Committee members for PhD (Fuyang Tian/KTH, Guohua Zhao/KTH, David Molnar/Dalarna&KTH, Hanzhu Zhang/Luleå, Xun Sun/KTH) dissertation defenses in Sweden

2009- Reviewer for chapters in two books (High-Entropy Alloys: Fundamentals and Applications, by Gao, Yeh, Liaw and Zhang, Springer, 2016; High Entropy Alloys, 2nd Ed. by Murty, Yeh and Ranganathan, Elsevier, 2019), and ~80 international academic journals including Nature, Science, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, etc.