
Conference Chairs
Distinguished Professor Ma Qian - RMIT University
Dr 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
Jian-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 |