Junjie Wang

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Junjie Wang holds the deputy director position of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing. Junjie obtained his B.Sc., Master and Ph.D. in Materials Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University. This was followed by a CNRS postdoctoral fellowship at IEMN in France from 2010 to 2012. Then he worked as a postdoc of VITO from 2012-2013 in Belgium. He was awarded the 2013 JSPS research fellowship and spent two years at NIMS as a JSPS research fellow. He held his first faculty position at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, from 2016 to 2018, before returning to China. He has been engaged in material genetic engineering research of electronic materials, catalytic materials and energy materials, and has published more than 80 papers in academic journals such as "Nature Catalysis" and "JACS".

Junming Liu

Nanjing University, China

Professor Liu received his doctorate of materials science from Northwestern Polytechnic University in 1989, and then joined Nanjing University as a post-doctor where he was an associate professor of physics from 1992 and a full professor of physics in 1999. He has made seminal contributions to the synthesis and characterization of multiferroic materials and other complex transition metal oxides, and to the understanding of physics of rare-earth manganites with multiferroicity and colossal magnetoresistance. His current research of focus includes the physics of ferroelectrics, magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic systems and statistical physics.

Ma Qian

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Professor Ma Qian holds the position of Distinguished Professor in Advanced Manufacturing and Materials at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia. He earned all his degrees from the University of Science and Technology Beijing and subsequently held research and academic appointments at Tsinghua University. Since 1994, Professor Ma Qian has held roles at various international institutions.

Professor Ma Qian’s research interests encompass solidification processing, metal additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy and biomaterials. He co-developed the Interdependence Theory for Alloy Solidification (Acta Materialia, 2011:59;4907-4921), initiated by Professor David StJohn, and has made significant contributions to the theories of grain refinement, heterogeneous nucleation, and solidification grain boundary migration. He has published in prominent journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, Acta Materialia and Biomaterials. Additionally, he co-authored an Elsevier monograph titled Light Alloys (5^th edition, 2017). As of October 2024, his publications have garnered nearly 30,000 citations.

Professor Ma Qian received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Materials Australia in 2022 (the fifth recipient since 2000) and is an elected fellow of the American Society for Metals International. He currently serves on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals, including Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia.

Yanqing Su

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Professor Yanqing Su is the doctoral supervisor of Harbin Institute of Technology, and is also the chairman of the Nonferrous Materials Committee of the World Foundry Organization (WFO), the vice chairman of the Casting Branch of China Mechanical Engineering Society, and the vice chairman of the Solidification Science and Technology Branch of China Materials Research Society. He has long been engaged in the research of multiphase material solidification theory, alloy melt quality control theory and technology, special solidification technology, additive manufacturing and advanced metal materials. As a person in charge or a major participant, he has undertaken or participated in more than 40 various scientific research projects. He has published more than 400 academic papers, authorized more than 70 invention patents, and won 7 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.

Menghuai Wu

Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

Professor Menghuai Wu has a research background in the numerical modeling and simulation of solidification processes. He completed his Master's studies at Northwestern Polytechnical University in China, his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen in Germany, and his Habilitation at the University of Leoben in Austria. In 2010, he became the head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for “Advanced Process Simulation of Solidification and Melting” at the same university. The multiphase solidification models developed by him and his colleagues have been broadly applied to ingot casting, continuous casting, semi-continuous casting, the unidirectional solidification process of superalloys, and ESR/VAR, among others.

Vladislav Blatov, Samara State Technical University, Russia

Shouxun Ji, Brunel University London, UK

Hyoung Seop Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

Shuhua Liang, Xi'an University of Technology, China

Gian-Marco Rignanese, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Baode Sun, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Qiang Wang, Northeastern University, China

Tongmin Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China