Metallurgy and Microscopy for Materials under Extreme Environments
Zhongxia Shang, Ph.D.
Hi, there! My name is Zhongxia. It means mid-summer in Chinese. I am a metallurgist and an electron microscopist connecting fundamental material science with engineering structural materials.
I am currently a staff scientist at Purdue Electron Microscopy Center and Birck Nanotechnology Center. I joined Purdue in 2016 as a graduate student and got my Ph.D. in Materials Engineering in 2020. Before joining EM center, I worked as a postdoc with Prof. Haiyan Wang and Prof. Xinghang Zhang and severed as the Talos 200X TEM manager of the department.
My current research interest includes advanced electron microscopy and in situ TEM of advanced ceramics and alloys. My research specialties also include metallurgy, radiation damages, strong-ductile alloys, laser powder bed fusion.
In my spare time, I enjoy cooking, traveling, music and photography.
Education:
Ph.D., Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2020
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2016
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, China, 2013
Honors and awards:
2021 TMS Best Paper Award, Graduate Division, Second Place.
ASM Graduate Student Poster Competition, Indianapolis Chapter, Third Prize, May 2019.
2019 Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching, Purdue University. (Recognition of efforts in teaching and mentoring of undergraduate education)
Academic Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2013-2015.
Outstanding Student Scholarship (2%), Shenyang University of Technology, 2011-2012
Government Scholarship of Liaoning Province (2%), 2010.
Professional services and activities:
Member of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).
Member of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA).
Invited reviewer of journals:
Additive Manufacturing (Impact factor: 11), Materials Research Letters (Impact factor: 7.323), Scripta Materialia (Impact factor: 5.611), Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Impact factor: 5.316), Journal of Nuclear Materials (Impact factor: 2.936), Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (Impact factor: 2.556), JOM (The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) (Impact factor: 2.471), Advanced Engineering Materials (Impact factor: 3.862), Materials Science and Technology (Impact factor: 2.586), Materials (MDPI) (Impact factor: 3.623), Metals (MDPI) (Impact factor: 2.351).
Manager of Talos 200X transmission electron microscope. (During Sep. 2020- Apr. 2022)
Assisted and collaborated with 38 users in 15 research groups from 7 departments at Purdue including: School of Materials Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, Civil Engineering. (Total training and assisting time > 450 hours)
Manager of double aberration corrected Themis Z transmission electron microscope and Helios G4 dual beam scanning electron microscope. (During Apr. 2022- present)
Teaching experience:
Recitation instructor, Spring 2018
MSE230: Structure and properties of materials, School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
Lecture instructors: Prof. David Johnson and Prof. Jan-Anders Mansson.
(1) Lectured class of 60 undergraduates on basic principles in Materials Science and Engineering. (W. D. Callister, et al. New York: Wiley, 2018.)
(2) Guided students during office hours and graded quizzes, homework, and exams.