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Director & Principal Investigator

Wei-Xiong
Dr. Wei Xiong
William Kepler Whiteford Associate Professor
Email: weixiong(a)pitt.edu
Address: 636 Benedum Hall,
3700 O'Hara St.,
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Biosketch

Prof. Wei Xiong is the William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. After a year at the University of Wisconsin–Madison performing computational modeling of phase transformations in nuclear materials, he joined Northwestern University as a research associate working on alloy development in the Steels Research Group for three years. He joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2016 and started leading the Physical Metallurgy and Materials Design Laboratory. Using the integrated computational materials engineering methods, Dr. Xiong works in materials design and process optimization, which covers a wide range of inorganic materials and focuses on phase equilibria and phase transformations.

Dr. Wei Xiong has served on the ASM International Alloy Phase Diagrams Committee, TMS ICME Committee, TMS Alloy Phases Committee (Past chair), and TMS High-Temperature Alloys Committee.

He has received several academic awards, which include Best Paper Awards of the CALPHAD journal in 2012 and 2013, APDIC (Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission) Best Paper Award 2021, the TMS FMD Young Leader Professional Development Award 2015, Outstanding Reviewer Award 2020 of Acta Materialia, the CALPHAD Young Leader Award 2020, the TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award 2021, the ASTM CoE Additive Manufacturing Young Professional Award 2024, and the National Science Foundation CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) Award 2021.

Dr. Xiong is an associate editor of the journals: Calphad, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, and Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. In addition, he serves on the editorial board for the journals: npj Advanced Manufacturing, Materials Characterization, and Journal of Materials Informatics.

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