BIOGRAPHY
Zhangwei Chen is currently a full Professor and Executive Director of Additive Manufacturing Institute at Shenzhen University (AMI-SZU). He is now leading a group of 30 researchers focusing on various aspects regarding 3D printing and related topics, spanning from materials development and technological investigation, to equipment development and application studies. Prof. Chen holds a B.S. and a M.E. in mechanical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He also obtained a master-equivalent Engineer Diploma (Diplome d'Ingenieur) from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France in 2010. He then earned his PhD in materials science and engineering from Imperial College London, United Kingdom in 2014, with his thesis awarded the prestigious John Kilner Prize from the college. He is now a board member of test technique branch of the Chinese Society of Ceramics and a senior member of both the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and the Chinese Society for Micro-Nanotechnology. He is also serving as editors of Journal of Advanced Ceramics, Frontiers in Materials and Nanoscience, Materials Engineering (Chinese) and so on. He has been working on the fields of ceramic and inorganic materials and components, involving materials processing, advanced manufacturing and characterizations etc. He has spent over 10 years particularly on the research of 3D printing of ceramics and the property-structure relationships. Prof. Chen has involved in a number of projects in China and the UK, supported by NSFC, EPSRC UK, Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City. He has published about 40 peer-reviewed articles in various top international academic journals including Acta Materialia, Materials Research Letters, Journal of Power Sources, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Ceramics International and so on. Some have been selected as front cover articles, feature articles and review articles. Prof. Chen also serves as a referee for over 20 peer-reviewed journals. At present, AMI-SZU is equipped with a complete series of facilities for material preparation and characterization as well as a number of advanced 3D printers. Working closely with domestic and overseas research institutes and companies, AMI-SZU has been awarded over 20 project funds totaling 10M RMB up to present.
RESEARCH INTEREST
3D printing and related topics, spanning from materials development and technological investigation, to equipment development and application studies.
