Special lectures / events
Special lectures
Biography: Luo Hong is Ph.D., Professor, doctoral supervisor, at University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. In 2013, he graduated from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing with a Ph. D in engineering. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada and Max Planck Institute for Iron and Steel in Germany. Since 2019, he has been teaching and researching at the Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology. Hosted and participated in more than 10 scientific and technological tasks including the National Natural Science Foundation, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, Canada and the German Nature Fundings. His research interests include high-entropy alloys, deformation processes and designs of corrosion-resistant materials, and research and application of corrosion damage mechanisms. More than 40 SCI papers were published in the journal, 10 patents were applied, and 6 were authorized. Acting as a reviewer of more than ten internationally renowned publications, such as Nat. Commun., Acta Mater., Mater., Scripta Mater., Corros. Sci., ACS Appl. Mater. Inter. He has won the Doctoral Award of Jiangsu Province, the Humboldt Scholarship of Germany, and the Outstanding Youth Academic Award for Corrosion and Protection in China.
Biography: Aleksandar Sedmak is Professor emeritus, at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He was a visiting professor at Drexel Univeristy, USA, in period 1999-2002. He has been teaching since 1979 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, mainly Engineering Materials, Welding, Numerical Methods, Fracture Mechanics, Structural Integrity. Advisor for 60 D.Sc. thesis, mostly related to Welding. He was coordinator for 10 national projects and 12 international projects in the scope of EUREKA, bilateral, H2020, FP7, COSME and Interreg programs. He is the President of Serbian Structural Integrity and Life Society and Editor-in-chief of Structural Integrity and Life Journal (Scopus, eSCI), and the President of European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS), member of editor boards and reviewer of a number of prominent world journals in Fracture Mechanics, and the Chairman of European Conference on Fracture (ECF22), Belgrade, 2018. He has been the guest editor of special issues of Engineering Failure Analysis, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics and International Journal of Fatigue. Prof. Sedmak is longstanding member of prominent societies, such as AWS and ASME, also honorary professor at Brasov University, Romania, since 2016 and foreign member of Hungarian Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2017, also member of Serbian Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2012.
Biography: Before being appointed as a full Professor of
Mechanics and Materials at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU) in 2003, he worked at the largest independent research organization in
Scandinavia, SINTEF, in Trondheim, Norway, for 9 years. He played a central
role in building up the competence of the Fracture Mechanics Group to an
international level. Professor Zhang was a visiting scientist at Harvard
University from 2000 to 2001, a Changjiang Visiting Chair Professor at the
University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) in 2010, a JSPS Fellow at
Kyoto University in 2011, and a visiting scholar at the California Institute of
Technology from 2017 to 2018 and at Kyushu University from 2024 to 2025. He has
supervised and co-supervised over 60 PhD and postdoctoral candidates at NTNU.
In 2006, Professor Zhang founded the NTNU Nanomechanical Lab. He was elected by
the Council of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) as chairman to
organize the 20th European Conference on Fracture (ECF20) in 2014. He is an
elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and an ESIS
Fellow. At NTNU, Professor Zhang has led 14 externally funded projects, with a
total budget exceeding 12 million euros. He has published his work as the
corresponding author in top-tier journals, including Chemical Reviews , Advanced
Materials , Advanced Functional Materials , Advanced
Science , Materials Horizons , Nano Letters , Nature
Communications , Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) , Acta
Materialia , and Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
(JMPS) . He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering
Fracture Mechanics . In August 2024, Professor Zhang was awarded the
prestigious Griffith Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of
fracture mechanics.
Round table / panel discussion on
"Approximately Right" vs "Exactly Wrong"
A Philosophy in Science & Engineering
organized by Prof. Youshi Hong
