Working experience
Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) (2025.05-Current)
- PostDoc researcher at AMD group with Dr. Süleyman Er
- Project: Molten salt facing alloys; corrosion and irradiation damage in Ni-based alloys
University of Twente (2025.03-2025.04)
- PostDoc researcher under the supervision of Dr. Fengxian Liu
- Project: High temperature application of high entropy alloys
University of Groningen (2024.09-2025.02)
- PostDoc in Multiscale Simulation of Mechanics (MSM) group led by Prof. F. Maresca
- Project: Hydrogen embrittlement; fracture in iron-carbon alloy; Developing machine learning interatomic potential for bcc refactories; theory of dislocation emission from crack tip
EDUCATION
Ph.D: University of Groningen (2020.07-2024.09)
- PhD in Mechanical Engineering, supervised by Prof. E. van der Giessen and Prof. F. Maresca
- Project: Multi-scale modelling of fracture in bcc metals: from atomistic to discrete dislocations.
- Here is link to the digital version of the PhD thesis
MS: Xian Jiao Tong University (2017.09-2020.07)
- MS in Solid Mechanics
- Project-I: Mechanical behavior of TiN GBs and TiN/metal interface
- Project-II: Stability of Stacking-fault-tetrahedron-like Structures in Single Copper
BS: Sichuan University (2013.09-2017.07)
- BS in Engineering Mechanics, Department of Engineering Mechanics
- Project: High cycle and ultra-high cycle fatigue failure behavior of nickel alloy
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
During Ph.D.
- Density functional theory calculations of defects in iron
- Development of quantum-accurate interatomic potential for iron
- Atomic modelling fracture of pure iron and its alloys
- Discrete dislocation dynamics modelling for fracture in bcc metals
- Development of analytic model for brittle to ductile transition in iron
During M.S.
- Molecular dynamics simulation of grain boundaries in titanium nitride
- Grain boundary mobility and shear deformation at finite temperature
- Stability of stacking fault tetrahedron
- Grain boundary structure evolution of FeNiCr alloy under irradiation
ACADEMIC AWARDS
- Best presentation at 25th EM symposium, Papendal, the Netherlands, 2022.
- Best presentation, ENTEG day, Groningen, the Netherlands, 2021.
- Selected as PhD scholarship student in University of Groningen, 2020.
- Selected as National scholarship student in China, 2019.
CONFERENCES
- 24th, 25th, 26th Engineering Mechanics Symposium, Arnhem, the Netherlands (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Machine learning for Material Science. Trieste, Italy (2022)
- 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference. Galway, Ireland (2022)
- 23rd European Conference of Fracture. Madeira, Portugal (2022)
- 7th International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Prague (2023)
- ECCOMAS Thematic Conference: Computational Modeling of Complex Materials across the Scales, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2023)
- 17th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, Frankfurt (2023)
- 11st Multiscale Materials Modelling (MMM11), Prague (2023)
Invited talk
- Group seminar, invited by Dr. Anirudh Raju Natarajan (EPFL). Presentation: Multiscale Modeling of Fracture in bcc Metals. (Nov 27\textsuperscript{th}, 2024)
- CCER seminar, invited by Dr. Süleyman Er (DIFFER). Presentation: Atomic Cluster Expansion Potentials for Modelling Defects in bcc Transition Metals. (Feb 27\textsuperscript{th}, 2025)