vice president of the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB)

Prof. Zhaoping Lyu is the vice president of the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science at the National University of Singapore. He had worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States as a post-doc researcher and a research staff member. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2007, and was the leader of the innovation group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He currently serves as the chief editor of Intermetallics and associate editor of a few other journals. He is also a national council member of Chinese Materials Research Society. He has expertise in the physical metallurgy and mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses, high-entropy alloys and high-performance steels. His research interests are in the glass formability, microstructure-property relationships in metallic materials, and strengthening and oxidation mechanisms of high-temperature alloys. He has granted for 78 patents and authored more than 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science, Nature Materials, etc., which were cited more than 36,000 times. His research work has garnered international recognition and been highlighted many times by Science, Nature, Nature Materials and Materials Today as a new and important development in materials science. One of his research work was selected as “the Top 10 Scientific Achievements of China” in 2017, and he is a winner of First prize in the natural science award of the Ministry of Education in 2017 and Second Prize of National Natural Science Award in 2018 and 2024, and a co-winner of R&D 100 Award in 2009.