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Prof. Xun-Li Wang 王循理教授

Chair Professor and Head
Department of Physics and Materials Science
City University of Hong Kong
香港城市大學
物理及材料科學系主任及講座教授

In August 2012, Professor Xun-Li Wang joined the City University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science.  He has since quickly established Hong Kong as a prominent center for neutron scattering activities.  With support from the Croucher Foundation in Hong Kong, he launched a biennial summer school to train highly promising postgraduate students and early career scientists on the use of neutron scattering.  In 2015, he organized the first Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on neutron scattering, focusing on disorder in materials.

Prior to assuming the current position, he had been working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, rising through the ranks to Distinguished Staff Member.  As a senior scientist in the Neutron Science Directorate, he led innovative research, using neutron scattering as a primary tool, to understand deformation and phase transformation behavior in complex materials.  In 1999 - 2011, Dr. Wang served as lead instrument scientist and project manager for VULCAN, a dedicated engineering diffractometer at the SNS.  Funded at a total cost of more than $16 Million US Dollars, the instrument was recently referred to by users as a “Perfect Instrument.” according to a Press Release by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Professor Wang’s research interests included superconductors, metallic glasses, nanostructured materials, and recently magnetic shape memory alloys.  He has published broadly in high-impact journals including Science, Nature Materials, and Physical Review Letters. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, and his early work on welding residual stresses was awarded an A. F. Davis Medal by the American Welding Society.

Professor Wang received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in the US and B.S. from Peking University, both in Physics.  

王循理教授現任香港城市大學物理及材料科學系主任及講座教授,是中子散射和同步輻射研究領域的國際知名專家。來港之前,王教授在美國橡樹嶺國家實驗室(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)工作20年,一直從事中子散射方面的研究,並成為ORNL的資深研究員(Distinguished Research Staff), 田納西大學兼職教授。 在此期間,王教授領導的研究組負責Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)和High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)中的8個設備,同時他還是另外一個工程衍射儀(VULCAN)的設備首席科學家和專案負責人。 據ORNL電子報報導,集資1600萬美元籌建的VULCAN設備常被使用者譽為「完美的實驗儀器」。 王教授的主要研究領域包括材料相變,力學性能以及磁性,已在《Science》、《Nature Materials》,《Physical Review Letters》等發表學術論文近200篇,應邀作特約報告100 次。 早期工作獲美國焊接協會A. F. Davis獎章。 2006年獲國家基金委傑青(B類),2008年中國科學院海外知名學者稱號,2009年被中國教育部授予長江講座教授, 2010年當選為美國物理學會會士 (APS Fellow), 2015年發起高登中子散射會議(Gordon Research Conference on Neutron Scattering),並擔任首屆會議主席。 王教授曾多次受命於美國能源部基礎科學辦公室,為美國洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室先進中子源和阿貢國家實驗室同步輻射中心的評審委員會擔任評委,2015起擔任中國科學院重大科技基礎設施諮詢委員會委員。