Prof. Dr. Xiaowu Li graduated from the Institute of Metals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a doctor's degree in 1998. He is now the dean and full professor of the Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Northeastern University. He is currently a fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM Fellow), member of the Development Advisory Committee of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, member of the Fatigue Branch of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, and editorial board member of international SCI journals such as JMST and Metals. His research interests include the strengthening and toughening, fatigue, and fracture of metallic materials, as well as the microstructure and properties of biomimetic materials. He published nearly 230 peer reviewed SCI scientific papers with more than 3600 citations. Formerly served as a JSPS research fellow at Osaka University in Japan and a Humboldt scholar at RWTH Aachen in Germany. Selected as an outstanding talent in the new century by the Ministry of Education, a hundred-person level talent project in Liaoning Province, and one of the top ten outstanding young innovative talents in Shenyang.
Prof. Dr. Zhefeng Zhang received a doctor's degree from the Institute of Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2000 to 2001, he was a research fellow funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at the Japan Institute of Industrial Technology. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Humboldt scholar at the Leibniz Institute of Solid Materials in Germany. From January to December 2003, he was a visiting scholar at the Stuttgart Max Planck Institute of Metals in Germany. In 2004, he returned to work at the Institute of Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as a member of the International Committee on Strength (ICSMA), a member of the International Committee on Metal Mechanical Fatigue (ICMFM), a director of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, Secretary General/Director of the Fatigue Branch of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, Deputy Director/Executive Director of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Society for Materials Research. He received honors and awards such as the National Talent Program, National Hundred and Ten Million Talents Project "Outstanding Contribution Young Expert", and Chinese Highly Cited Scholar. His research interests include the mechanical behavior of metal materials, strengthening and toughening mechanisms, fatigue damage and life prediction, fracture mechanisms, and strength theory.
