Ke LuThe recipient of the 2019 Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award is Dr. Ke Lu, Professor and Director of the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. The Gold Medal will be presented during the 2019 TMS Spring Meeting and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Ke Lu received his B.S. degree in Materials Science in 1985 from Nanjing University of Science & Technology (China) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science in 1988 and 1990, respectively, from IMR of CAS (Shenyang, China). He joined IMR in 1990 as an assistant research Professor and was promoted to full professor in 1993. In 1997 he was appointed as Director of State Key Laboratory for Rapidly Solidified Non-equilibrium Alloys in IMR. He served as the Director-general of IMR during 2001 through 2012. As the founding director, Prof. K. Lu has been leading the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science since 2000. During 2005-2007, he served as the Dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since 2013, he is a Principal Investigator of Herbert Gleiter Institute for Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Science and Technology.
As a leading researcher in the field of nanostructured materials, Dr. Ke Lu contributed to the advancement of materials science and engineering with world-class, trend-setting research. His highly cited research covers nanostructured metals, amorphous alloys, and thin films, dealing with thermodynamic and kinetics of processing and phase transformation, stability and melting, mechanical and tribological properties, physical and chemical properties, etc. His major scientific accomplishments include: (i) discovery of nano-twinned materials and development of nano-twin strengthening methodology; (ii) development of surface nanocrystallization technology and discovery of unique behaviors of gradient nano-grained structures in metals and alloys, and (iii) the stabilization and plastic deformation of nano-grained metals at extreme sizes.
Prof. Lu is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2003), the World Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries (2004), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2005), and National Academy of Engineering of USA (2018, foreign member) and has received numerous awards from around the world.