Prof. Zhuang-Qi Hu, born in Shanghai on 31 Aug. 1929, graduated in the Department of Chemistry, University of Shanghai in 1952, professor of the Institute of Metal Research, Academia Sinica and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.  

     He is emphasized to study the nonequilibrium solidification, directional solidification under lateral constraint and rapid solidification processings, solute redistribution and phase precipitation, heat flow and solute trapping during rapid solidification, and develop new materials with novel properties, including superalloys, directionally solidified and single crystals, intermetallic compounds and nonequilibrium alloys.

 He is one of the leaders  in high temperature new materials research field in our country. He got 14 awards for his significant achievements in science and technology. for example “Development of air cooled blades for jet engine” —first prize of National Award of Scientific and Technological Progress, “Ultrasonic atomization process for producing microcrystalline alloy powders” —second prize of National Award of Scientific and Technological Progress, “Formation, microstructure and properties of nanostructured materials” —third prize of National Award of Natural Science, etc. He wrote and translated a total of eleven books and published 352 papers in foreign journals and 511 papers in Chinese periodicals. He has cultivated 78 doctors and 22 graduate students for master degree, as well as 16 postdoctors. Two of his students’doctor dissertations got the national award in 1999 and 2001.He won the title of Liaoning provincial model worker and provincial outstanding scientist having achievements in science and technology.