Biography

Prof. Xiaoyan Song is Group Leader of Metallic Nanomaterials and Computational Materials Science at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, and also the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Education Ministry of China. She is Yangtze River Scholars Distinguished Professor, and winner of China National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. She received her Ph. D degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 1999, and worked as Humboldt Fellow at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany in 2000-2003. She was awarded the “Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize” once and the “Municipal Natural Science and Technology Invention Award Second Prize” for three times. She has published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals including Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and Acta Mater., and has over 50 patents authorized. Some of her patents have been industrialized and led to more than 10 kinds of high-grade engineering products. She has been engaged as the Associate Editor of Int. J. Refract. Met. Hard Mater. since 2013, and served as committee members of several international and domestic academic societies such as PTC, CSS and CMRS. Based on computational materials science, her group aims at design, preparation, and investigation of microstructures and properties of metallic nanomaterials, including rare-earth materials, hard metals and cermets.