International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Wenkui WANG

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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Wenkui Wang is a distinguished Chinese materials scientist whose research and professional work have focused on materials under extreme conditions, bulk metallic glasses, and cross-scale mechanics. Born in March 1937 in Liaoning Province, China, he graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1960 and received his Doctor of Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1982. He subsequently conducted research at Harvard University from 1983 to 1985 and from 1991 to 1992. He currently serves as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Yanshan University and Research Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been recognised as a National Model Teacher and selected as one of the inaugural Yanzhao Scholars of Hebei Province. His professional service has included membership of the international editorial board of Crystal Research and Technology and the Chinese National Committee for COSPAR. He also serves as Director of the IEAS Innovation Institute for Cross-scale Mechanical Design and Manufacturing in Laixi, Qingdao, affiliated with the IEAS China Science Center.

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Professor Wang’s research has centred on materials behaviour under extreme conditions, bulk metallic glasses, and solidification under microgravity. As a principal investigator of materials experiments conducted aboard three Chinese recoverable satellites, he introduced flux-assisted solidification in space and quantitatively investigated buoyancy-driven convection during alloy solidification, work recognised with the Second Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award. His development of high-pressure melt quenching, rapid depressurisation, and purification techniques for suppressing heterogeneous nucleation enabled the preparation of Zr-based and Pd-based bulk metallic glasses in the early 1990s and received the Second Prize of the State Technological Invention Award. In 2019, following nearly a decade of research, he introduced the concept of “cross-scale mechanics”, a physics-based framework relating microscopic mechanical behaviour to macroscopic motion across scales. He has published more than 400 scientific papers, holds five invention patents, and has supervised nearly thirty doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. Through sustained research and academic leadership, Professor Wang has contributed to the development of bulk metallic glass research, space materials experimentation, cross-scale mechanics, and postgraduate education.