Lijuan Zhang

Biography

Lijuan was awarded a Doctoral degree in 2003 at the University of Oxford in Materials Science, a research Master’s  degree in 1988 and Bachelor degree in 1983 in China. Lijuan joined the UoW in May 2011 after she spent about four year in The Welding Institute(TWI), where she worked as a senior project leader in the Section of Corrosion Resistant Alloys in the Group of Surfacing, Materials and Metallurgy. Prior to TWI, Lijuan had been working as a research associate for four and half years in the Rolls-Royce--University Technology Centre(RRUTC) at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in the University of Cambridge.

Research Interest

Lijuan’s research interests lies in new materials development, microstructure characterisation, property evaluation. These include ceramic coating, Ni base alloys and stainless steels and other high temperature structural alloys. Failure analysis and materials selection have always been major focus of Lijuan’s research area. Now the application of 3D printing manufacturing technology  in high temperature alloys is attracting Lijuan’s research interest.