Prof. Yuntian Zhu, Chair Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea for his significant contributions in research in physics and properties of heterostructured and nanostructured  materials.

Prof. Zhu authored over 450 peer-reviewed papers, which have been collectively cited for over 53,000 times with an h-index of 118 according to Google Scholar as of February 2023. Prof. Zhu was recently elected to the US National Academy of Inventors, and to the Fellows of five academic societies: TMS, MRS, APS, ASM, and AAAS. He has received numerous awards, including the Institute of Metals Lecture and Robert Franklin Mehl Award (a pinnacle TMS award), ASM International Albert Sauveur Award, the IUMRS S?miya Awar, TMS SMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award, and TMS Leadership Award. He is one of the two founding Editor-in-Chiefs for Materials Research Letters, which is the No.1 communication journal in the field of structural materials, in terms of ISI Impact Factor (8.516) and Scopus Citescore (13.6).

The Academia Europaea was established in 1988 and is the Pan-European Academy of Sciences Humanities and Letters. The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages in the aforesaid subjects in Europe.

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