Bingbo WEI

Bingbo Wei, born in April 1964 at Shandong province of China, professor of materials science at the department of applied physics in Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of Chinese Materials Research Society. He graduated from the mechanical engineering department of Shandong Engineering Institute and got a BE degree for foundry technology in 1983. Obtained a ME degree for solidification technology in 1986 at the materials science department of Nanjing Institute of Technology. In 1989, he received a Ph.D degree for rapid solidification research at department of materials science and engineering in NPU. After his doctoral study, he became lecturer of physical metallurgy at NPU and got involved in China’s early programs of space science research. With the supports of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he went to German Aerospace Research Center, Max-Planck-Institute of Metals Research and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne for cooperative investigations in the two years of 1991-1992. Promoted to professor of materials science at NPU in 1992 and appointed as director of applied physics department in 1998. He was the founding director of Ministerial Key Laboratory for Space Materials Science and Technology and the founding dean of School for Natural and Applied Sciences in NPU. In the respect of university administration, he served as the vice president for scientific research (2007-2013) and graduate education (2014-2018) of NPU. His research subjects include the directional solidification of aluminum alloys, rapid solidification of superalloys, containerless processing of refractory alloys, thermophysical properties of undercooled liquid alloys, and space materials science and technology. He was elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. Served as the vice president of Chinese Materials Research Society for the 10 years of 2007-2017 and became the president in 2018.