Yuntian Zhu#
| Membership Number: | 6543 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hsm-lab.com/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5961-7422 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Chair Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- 2012 - 2020 Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University, USA
- 2009 - 2012 Professor, North Carolina State University, USA
- 2007 - 2009 Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, USA
- 2011 - 2017 Dean, School of Materials Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
- 2011 - 2020 Director, Nano & Heterogeneous Materials Center, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
- 2006 - 2007 Team Leader, Nanomaterials, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- 1997 - 2009 Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- 1994 - 1997 Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Deformation twinning of nano-metals
- Carbon nanotube composites
- Heterostructured materials
- Deformation physics of metals
- Nanostructured materials
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (USA)
- 2019 Fellow, Materials Research Society (MRS)
- 2017 Fellow, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)
- 2012 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2011 Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2010 Fellow, ASM International
- 2020 Institute of Metals Lecture and Robert Franklin Mehl Award, TMS
- 2020 IAAAM Scientist Award, International Association of Advanced Materials
- 2015 IUMRS Sômiya Award, International Union of Materials Research Societies
- 2015 Leadership Award, TMS
- 2014 Albert Sauveur Achievement Award, ASM International
- 2014 Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award, North Carolina State University
- 2012 TMS SMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
- 2010 TMS MPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
- 2010 Alumni Outstanding Research Award, North Carolina State University
