Dr. Wei Wei is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Changzhou University of P. R., China. He is the Director of the Key Laboratory of Surface Engineering and Advanced Materials in the Petroleum and Chemical Industry and Advanced Functional Materials of Jiangsu Province Joint Laboratory for International Cooperation, as well as the Executive Director of China Renewable Resources Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance. He holds a PhD degree in Engineering in Materials Science from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2005. He was a senior visiting scholar in the field of physics of nanostructured materials at the University of Vienna. His main research directions are bulk nano-metals, surface engineering, and material recycling. He has undertaken more than 40 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education Innovation Project, the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Special Project, and the Sinopec Key Project. He has published over 100 papers, obtained 25 authorized invention patents, published 4 monographs (textbooks), and won 1 international science and technology cooperation award and 4 provincial- and ministerial-level science and technology progress awards.
Prof. Elena Korznikova holds a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. She is the Head of the youth laboratory “Metals and Alloys under Extreme Impacts” of the Eurasian REC; winner of the competitions of the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists and for state support of leading scientific schools of the Russian Federation; Head of the Department of scientific Publications of UGATU; and leading researcher at the Institute of Problems of Superplasticity of Metals of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist in the field of experimental and computer materials science, with an emphasis on nanomaterials and new two-dimensional materials. She actively participates in studies of the influence of extreme impacts on the structure and properties of materials. She shows a number of non-trivial phenomena associated with finding a material in a state far from equilibrium, such as the formation of non-equilibrium solid solutions from immiscible components, changes in the elastic properties of materials against the background of the implementation of high-amplitude vibrations of atoms according to certain patterns, the occurrence of energy localizations in the form of discrete breathers, etc.
