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Asia-Pacific International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (APICAM)

Conference Chairs

Distinguished Professor Ma Qian - RMIT University

Professor Gwenaelle ProustDr Ma Qian is Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Additive Manufacturing (AM) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His current research centres on metal AM, solidification, and powder metallurgy. He co-developed “The Interdependence Theory for Grain Formation in Solidification” (Acta Mater 2011;59:4907; 2010;58:3262), which is being applied to metal AM today, and a novel SLM process for Ti-6Al-4V (Acta Mater 2015;85:74), and also with his team, identified massive phase transformation in AM Ti-6Al-4V (Acta Mater 2016;104:303). He co-authored the 5th edition Ian Polmear book Light Alloys: Metallurgy of the Light Metals (2017, Elsevier) with Ian Polmear, David StJohn and Jian-Feng Nie, and edited two Elsevier books on titanium with F. H. Froes.

With his collaborators and students, he has published 202 journal papers, which have resulted in the Australian CAST-CRC Industry Partner’s Award (2002, inaugural), TMS Magnesium Technology Award (2003), ASM Henry Howe Medal (2006), the Australian ARC CoE for Design in Light Metals best paper awards (2012; 2103) and five other awards. He initiated the biannual international conference on Titanium Powder Metallurgy in 2011 (co-sponsored by Materials Australia, TiDA, TMS, JSPM and CSM). Currently he serves as an Associate Editor for Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia.

Professor Jian-Feng Nie - Monash University

Professor Gwenaelle ProustJian-Feng Nie is a professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University. His current research interests cover light alloys, applications of scanning transmission electron microscopy in materials characterisation, and processing-microstructure-property relationships in metallic alloys. He has co-authored one book on light alloys, published one book chapter in the 5th edition of Physical Metallurgy, and co-authored over 250 papers in major journals. He is editor of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, and chair of the National Events Committee of Materials Australia. He chaired several international conferences, including the 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (PRICM-7), which was held in Cairns in 2010.

 

 

Organizing Committee:

Distinguished Prof. Ma Qian  RMIT University
Prof. Jian-Feng Nie                               Monash University
Dr. Tingting Song (Conference Secretary) RMIT University
Dr. Jordan Noronha (Conference Secretary) RMIT University
Distinguished Prof. Milan Brandt RMIT University
A/Prof. Andrey Molotnikov RMIT University
Ms. Tanya Smith Materials Australia
Prof. Daniel Fabijanic Deakin University
A/Prof. Andrew Ang Swinburne University
Prof. Mingxing Zhang University of Queensland
Prof. Jay Kruzic UNSW Sydney
Dr. Daniel East CSIRO
Prof. Sophie Primig UNSW Sydney
Dr. Christopher Wallbrink Defence Science and Technology Group
Prof. Aijun Huang Monash University
Prof. Gwénaëlle Proust University of Sydney
Prof. Krishnan Kannoorpatti Charles Darwin University
Dr. Kun Yang Defence Science and Technology Group
Dr. Bobby Gillham The University of Western Australia
Prof. Huijun Li University of Wollongong
A/Prof. Yang Yang University of Technology Sydney
Prof. Cho-Pei Jiang National Taipei University of Technology
A/Prof. Xiaopeng Li UNSW Sydney
A/Prof. Jonathan Tran RMIT University
A/Prof. Prateek Saxena Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi