Yanxiang Zhang

Yanxiang Zhang is a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He received his B. E. in Materials Science from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2008, and Ph.D. in Materials Science from University of Science & Technology of China in 2013. His research interests include theoretical modeling, process characterization, and technical development of heat treatment and surface engineering for metallic materials and functional ceramic materials. Prof. Zhang is serving as Deputy Secretary General of the China Heat Treatment Association, an invited reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He is currently an Associate Editor for Results in Engineering (Elsevier), e-Prime (Elsevier), Electrochemistry section of Frontiers In Chemistry (Frontiers) and an Editor for Coatings (MDPI). Under With the support of more than 20 projects, including NSFC, the Ministry of National Defense Project of China, National Key Research & Development Program of China, Prof. Zhang developed a series of theories and methods for the characterization of 3D microstructures, the in-situ characterization of reaction–-diffusion process, and the applications in case hardening of gearing and tooling parts and analysis of ceramic fuel cells. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers with more than 2000 citations and an H-index of 26. http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/hitzhang