Prof. Dr. Mao Liu currently serves as a Professor at
the Northeastern University (Shenyang, China). He earned his PhD degree from
the University of Wollongong, Australia. In 2015, Prof. Dr. Liu successfully
won a JSPS Fellowship from Japan, and he had worked as a JSPS fellow at
the University of Tokyo under the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science) Fellowship program for two years. In 2017, he went back to Australia
and worked as a postdoctoral fellow and sessional lecturer at Swinburne
University of Technology. He started developing new types of gradient
nanostructured metallic materials through supersonic impact at cryogenic
temperature to improve their mechanical properties. In 2020, he secured a
professorship at Northeastern University and subsequently worked as a full
professor there. His main research interests focus on computational and
experimental micro/nano mechanics of metallic materials and composites, and novel
computational methods (crystal plasticity finite element method) for modeling
mechanical behaviour and microstructure evolutions of metals (steel, aluminium,
high-entropy alloys, etc.) during both quasi-static and dynamic plastic
deformation processes.
