Qingjie Zhang - 2021 Acta Materialia Hollomon Award RecipientThe recipient of the 2021 Acta Materialia Hollomon Award for Materials and Society is Professor Qingjie Zhang of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing in the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) at Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. He is also a Scientist in Materials Science and a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanics of Materials and Structures from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990. He was engaged in post-doctoral research in Materials Science at in the State Key Lab from 1991 to1992. At present, he is Professor and President of WUT.
His research activities have focused on the development and application in the areas of new energy materials and devices, advanced composite materials and structures, material micro-nano computation and new materials design, to name a few. In the last 20 years, Prof. Zhang received three National Awards for technological invention and scientific discovery including two National Technological Invention Awards and a National Natural Science Award. In 2017, Prof. Zhang received the American Ceramic Society Award for Frontier of Science and Technology-Rustum Roy Lecture.
Prof. Zhang has been appointed successively as Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (2007-2017) of High-efficiency Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Director of the State Key Laboratory (2004-2017), Member of 1st National Basic Research Strategy Advisory Committee of Ministry of Science and Technology (2020-), Head of the Expert Group of Materials for the Strategy Planning Research for State Key Laboratories Facing to 2035 of Ministry of Science and Technology, Head of Expert Group of Materials for the Strategy Planning Research on Interdisciplinary Frontiers and Disruptive Innovation Facing to 2035 of Ministry of Science and Technology, Member of Expert Group of Guideline drafting for National Key Research Program on Key Sciences Problems on Disruptive Technologies (2017-), Head of Expert Group of Major Research Project on High-performance Materials with Ordered Functional Unit of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019-).
Prof. Zhang was selected as the 2021 awardee by an international panel of judges appointed by the Board of Governors of Acta Materialia, Inc., and will receive this prestigious award in March 2021 during the TMS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.