Prof. Dr. Dongrong Liu is a professor at the School of Material Science and Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China. She received a bachelor's degree in thermal processing in 2000 and a master's degree in casting in 2003 from Harbin University of Science and Technology and a Ph.D. degree in material processing engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2006. From September 2007 to September 2009, she conducted postdoctoral research in the Key Laboratory of Material Processing Simulation, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From January 2012 to December 2013, she conducted postdoctoral research in the IM2NP research group of Universites d' Aix-Marseille, France. Her main research focuses on solidification models.
Prof. Dr. Aihan Feng is an associate professor of materials science at Tongji University, China. She received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1997, 2001, and 2005, respectively. She then worked as a postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang, China. In May 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada. Her current research interests are as follows: isothermal forging of magnesium, titanium alloy, Ti2AlNb-based alloy, and titanium aluminide intermetallic alloys; phase transformation of Ti2AlNb-based and TiAl-based alloys and 3D printing titanium-based alloy by using in situ TEM/HREM, synchrotron X-ray diffraction, and neutron diffraction; and microstructural evolution and fatigue properties of friction stir welded aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium-based alloys, and metal matrix composites.
Prof. Dr. Daolun Chen is a professor at the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1983 and an M.Sc. degree in 1986 from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. Then, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989 and Dr.rer.nat. from the University of Vienna in 1993. His pioneering work on nanocomposites led to a well-known method that bears his name and is twice identified by the Council of Canadian Academies to be one of the top 1% of most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Premier’s Research Excellence Award, the Canadian Metal Physics Award, the G.H. Duggan Medal, the MetSoc Award for Research Excellence, the MetSoc Distinguished Materials Scientist Award, the Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award, and the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards—Engineering Medal for R&D. Dr. Chen is an elected Fellow of two academies (Canadian Academy of Engineering and European Academy of Sciences and Arts) and five professional associations/societies (American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA; Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum; Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering; Canadian Welding Bureau Association; and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK).
