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Prof. Mingxin HUANG (黃明欣) BEng. (SJTU), MSc (SJTU), PhD (TU Delft) Chair Professor of Materials Technology Head of Department Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong Office: Rm 7-15, 7/F, Haking Wong Building, Pofulam Road, Hong Kong, China Email: mxhuang(at)hku.hk Tel:+852 3917 7906 |
Prof. Huang received his BEng and MSc in Mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and his PhD in Materials Science in 2008 from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a research engineer at ArcelorMittal (the largest steel company in the world) in Maizieres-les-Metz, France. His research work in ArcelorMittal focused on the development of new advanced steels for lightweight automotive applications. Prof. Huang joined University of Hong Kong in 2010 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2016, full Professor in 2019 and Chair Professor in 2023. Prof. Huang’s research interests focus on : (1) Structural Materials (steel, Mg alloy, Al alloy, Ni-based alloy etc.); (2) Fracture and hydrogen embrittlement; (3) Phase transformation; (4) Anti- pathogenic materials; and (5) Corrosion-resistant materials. Both experimental and modelling works are involved in his research. Being the PI, Prof. Huang secured funding from Collaborative Research Fund (UGC, HK), Research Impact Fund (UGC, HK), National Key R&D Program (國家重點研發計劃, mainland China), General Research Fund (UGC, HK), Innovation and Technology Fund (HK), National Natural Science Foundation of China (mainland China), and industries from Europe and China (e.g. ArcelorMittal France, General Motors, Ansteel, Baosteel etc). Prof. Huang has published 160+ SCI journal papers on international journals including Science, Materials Today, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, JMPS and IJP etc.
Editorship and Editorial Board Membership
Honors and Awards
2025 Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering
2024 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2023 Top 1% highly cited researcher in the field of Materials Science by Web of Science
2023 Outstanding Researcher Award, The University of Hong Kong
2023 HKU Innovator Award, The University of Hong Kong
2022 Croucher Senior Fellowship
2022 Top 1% highly cited researcher in the field of Materials Science by Web of Science
2022 Silver Medal, Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
2021 Xplorer Prize (科學探索獎)
2021 Outstanding Research Output Prize, The University of Hong Kong
2021 Top 1% highly cited researcher in the field of Materials Science by Web of Science
2021 Gold Medal, Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
2020 Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM)
2019 Member of The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
2019 Outstanding reviewer award for Scripta Materialia
2019 Excellent Article Award, Journal of Iron and Steel Research International
2018 Outstanding Young Researcher Award, The University of Hong Kong
2018 Outstanding Research Output Prize, The University of Hong Kong
2018 TechConnect Global Innovation Awards, TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2018, USA
2018 Highly Cited Article form Web of Science
2018 Most Cited Scripta Materialia Articles since 2012 (Scopus)
2018 Outstanding reviewer award for Acta/Scripta Materialia
2017 中國新銳科技人物
2017 Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award, The University of Hong Kong
2016 Outstanding reviewer award for Scripta Materialia
2015 Outstanding reviewer award for Scripta Materialia
2013 Excellent paper award, 12th IUMRS International Conference on Advanced Materials, Qingdao, China
Education Background:
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China (2018-2025)
BSc in Electrical Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China (2014-2018)
Research Areas: Power module packaging
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2020-2024)
MSc in Aerospace Propulsion Theory and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China (2016-2019)
BSc in Flying Vehicle Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China (2012-2016)
Research Areas: Fracture mechanics of steel and high entropy alloys
Education Background:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University, Beijing, China (2022-2024)
PhD in Mechanics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (2016-2021)
BSc in Mechanics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (2012-2016)
Research Areas: Modeling on the deformation behaviors of metals and alloys
Education Background:
PhD in Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2015-2020)
BSc in Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China (2011-2015)
Research Areas: Semiconductor devices; Two-dimensional materials
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2017-2022)
MSc in Metallurgy, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China (2012-2015)
BSc in Mining, Wuhan Institue of Technology, Wuhan, China (2007-2011)
Research Areas: Ni-free stainless steel
Education Background:
PhD in Aerospace Propulsion Theory and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China (2020-2025)
BEng in Aircraft Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China (2016-2020)
Research Areas: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power and Propulsion Systems
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2016-2021)
BEng in Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2012-2016)
Research Areas: High strain rate deformation of alloys; Data-driven alloy design
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2020-2025)
BEng in Metallurgical Engineering, Central South University, China (2016-2020)
Research Areas: Advanced magnesium alloys, High pressure science and techniques
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (2019-2024)
BEng in Materials Processing & Controlling, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (2015-2019)
Research Areas: Additive manufacturing, Shape memory alloys
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2019-2023)
MSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China (2016-2019)
BSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China (2012-2016)
Research Area: Ductile Mg alloys
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2018-2023)
BSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China (2014-2018)
Research Areas: In situ electron microscopy, High entropy alloy
Education Background:
PhD in Nanoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (2018-2021)
MEng in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015-2018)
BEng in Applied Chemistry, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China (2011-2015)
Research Areas: Materials interface chemistry and engineering
Education Background:
PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2020-2025)
MEng in Materials Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China (2015-2017)
BEng in Welding Technology and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China (2011-2015)
Research Areas: Additive Manufacturing, Powder Metallurgy, High entropy alloys
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2019-2024)
BEng in Metallurgical Engineering, Central South University, China (2015-2019)
Research Areas: Duplex Stainless steel, Transmission electron microscopy
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Processing Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (2011-2016)
BEng in Materials Processing & Controlling, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou China (2007-2011)
Research Areas: Ultrahigh strength spring steel
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, China (2018-2022)
MEng in Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, China (2015-2018)
BSc in Material Science and Engineering, Chongqing Jiao Tong University, China (2011-2015)
Research Areas: Powder metallurgy, Oxide dispersion strengthened refractory metals (W, Mo)
Education Background:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2018-2023)
BSc in Engineering Mechanics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2014-2018)
Research Areas: Delayed fracture in PHS
Education Background:
MPhil in Material Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (2019-2022)
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (2015-2019)
Research Areas: High strain rate deformation of alloys, Hopkinson tensile bar
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2025-present)
MSc in Materials and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing & Shenzhen, China (2022-2025)
BSc in Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (2017-2021)
Research areas: Thermal Interface Materials
Education Background:
MSc in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2023-2024)
BEng in Electronic Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (2019-2023)
Research areas: Electrode materials for hydrogen production
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2023-present)
BSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2019-2023)
Research areas: Alloy design
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2024-present)
BSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China (2020-2024)
Research areas: High strain rate deformation and multi-scale mechanical analysis of metals
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2025-present)
BEng in Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2021-2025)
Research areas: Thermal management materials
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2021-present)
MSc in Advanced Engineering Materials, The University of Manchester, UK (2018-2020)
BEng in Materials Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2014-2018)
Research Areas: Hydrogen Embrittlement
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2024-present)
Master in Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK (2023-2024)
BEng in Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK (2020-2023)
Research areas: Alloy Design
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2021-present)
MEng in Materials Processing Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2017-2019)
BEng in Welding Technology and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2013-2017)
Research Areas: Antibacterial mechanism and bioceramics
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2023-present)
BSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2019-2023)
Research areas: Hydrogen production; Data-driven corrosion study
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2024-present)
BSc in Engineering Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China (2020-2024)
Research areas: Integrated circuit packaging
Education Background:
MPhil Candidate (2021-present)
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University London (2018-2021)
Research Areas: High strain rate fracture toughness in steels
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2022-present)
BSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2018-2022)
Research areas: Functional stainless steel
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2022-present)
MPhil in Material Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (2019-2022)
Bachelor of Engineering Science, The University of Hong Kong (2013-2018)
Research Areas: Plasiticity and phase transformation simulations
Education Background:
PhD student (2020-present)
MSc in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2017-2020)
BSc in Material Processing and Control Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2013-2017)
Research Areas: Hydrogen embrittlement, welding and coating of steels
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2024-present)
MSc in Energy and Power Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2021-2024)
BEng in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2017-2021)
Research areas: Structure–activity relationship of electrocatalytic materials for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction and rational design of gas diffusion electrodes
Education Background:
PhD candidate (2021-present)
MSc in Material Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA (2017-2020)
MSc in Material Science, Stanford University, USA (2015-2017)
BSc in Material Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing (2011-2015)
Research Areas: Hydrogen Embrittlement