Ir Professor Tongyi ZHANG
張統一
FHKEng [2012]
Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Fang Professor of Engineering; Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Fellow, The International Congress on Fracture
- Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011
- FHKIE, 2003
- Fellow of ASM International, USA, 2001
- Second Prize of State Natural Science Award, 2007
- Second Prize of State Natural Science Award, 1987
- The National Award for Young Scientists, China, 1988
- Vice President, The International Congress on Fracture, 2013-
- Vice president, The Far East and Oceanic Fracture Society, since 2001
- Senior Research Fellow, Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, 2003
Ir Professor Zhang has worked over 30 years in the field of mechanical properties of materials, including stress corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement of metals, crystal defects, micro/nanomechanics, surface stress of solids, fracture of piezoelectric materials, thin films, microbridge tests, thermodynamics of materials, diffusion and phase transformation.
Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1986-1988 at Universität Göttingen, Germany; Postdoctoral fellow in 1988-1990 at University of Rochester, USA; Research Associate in 1990-1993 at Yale University, USA; and JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2010
MPhil
PhD
mezhangt@ust.hk