short biography

Dr. Zi-Kui Liu is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, which he joined in 1999, and holds executive positions in materials science organizations, companies, and journals. He founded the NSF Center for Computational Materials Design and coined the name “Materials Genome®”.

My current research activities are centered on first-principles calculations, modeling of thermodynamic and kinetic properties, and their integration in understanding defects, phase stability, and phase transformations, and designing and tailoring materials processing and properties. He has graduated 29 PhD students and published over 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has recently written a textbook on Computational Thermodynamics of Materials.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Metallurgy, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

  • Master of Science in Materials Engineering University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

  • Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy, Central South University, China

Current Positions

  • Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

  • President, Materials Genome Foundation

  • President, CALPHAD Inc.

  • Editor-in-Chief, CALPHAD Journal

  • President, Materials Genome, Inc.

Past Positions

  • President, ASM International term (2019-2020)

  • Founder and Director, NSF Center for Computational Materials Design (2005-2014)

  • Vice-President, ASM International (2018-2019)

  • Trustee, ASM International (2013-2016)

  • Board of Directors, TMS (2008-2011)

Awards

  • Fellow, TMS

  • Fellow, ASM International

  • William Hume-Rothery Awards, TMS

  • J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award, ASM International

  • Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award, ACers

  • Lee Hsun Award, Institute of Metal Research, CAS

  • Wilson Award for Excellence in Research, PSU

Academic Interests

  • Computational Thermodynamics

  • Materials Discovery

  • Ab-initio calculations

  • Phase transformations

Non-Academic Interests