Dr. Zhu Yao Hua served as Senior Research Fellow in State Key laboratory in Ultra-Precision Machining Technology, in Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 1983, in Metallurgy and Material Science, and was conferred Doctor of Science (DSc), 2006, in Engineering and Applied Science, at Aston University, UK. Over 110 peer reviewed journal articles, constituting systematic and original researches, have been published, covering various aspects of physical metallurgy, mechanical metallurgy, electro-physical metallurgy and electro-mechanical metallurgy.
Dr. Zhu Yao Hua’s research interest involves Materials Science – Physical metallurgy; phase transformation and structure development, processing, properties of metals and alloys; external stress induced phase transformation and microstructural changes; nanophase stability, electropulsing induced phase transformations and their effects on mechanical and conductive properties of nanofilms of alloys, transparent conductive oxides and thermoelectric materials, semiconductors.
