Professional Preparation

8/1/2000-8/14/2001 Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Kentucky conducting research work on continuous cast Al 1/21/1995-4/30/2000 Research Fellow University of Oxford, England studying short fatigue crack initiation & propagation 10/1/1994-12/31/1994 Postdoctoral Assistant Fraunhofer Institute for NDT, Germany ultrasonic NDT and acoustic microscopy of materials 9/1991-9/1994 Ph.D. student D.Phil (Ph.D), 9/1996 Materials Science, University of Oxford, England 9/1979-6/1983 Undergraduate B.Sc., 6/1983 Materials Physics, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China

Appointments

7/2007—present Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046, USA 8/2001—6/2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046, USA 9/1983—8/1986 Research Engineer, Welding Department Institute of Building and Construction Research, Beijing, China

Electron Microscopy, Failure Analysis, Fatigue and Fracture, Micro and Macrotexture, Simulation of Fatigue Damage, Structure/Property Relations