APICAM2019 - Key Persons
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- Member of the Organising Committee
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- Member of the Organising Committee
- US Airforce Research Laboratory )
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- Member of the Organising Committee
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.
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- Member of the Organising Committee
- Professor Kenong Xia ( University of Melbourne )
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- Member of the Organising Committee
- Professor Nick Birbilis ( Australian National University )
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- Member of the Organising Committee
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- Member of the Organising Committee
- Professor Milan Brandt ( RMIT University )
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- Associate Professor Dongbin Wei ( University of Technology Sydney )