(1) Phase transformation and microstructural / interface control of metallic materials and composite
(2) Mechancial and corrosion performance of materials under harsh environments (e.g. deep sea, drilling, polar region)

Biography
Work experimence
2024/06-present: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Associate Professor
2023/02-2024/06: Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
2021/08-2023/01: Postdoctoral fellow, Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology
Education
2016/08-2021/06: Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
2018/10-2020/03: MSc, Materials Science and Engineering
Tohoku University
2012/09-2016/06: B.S., Materials Science and Engineering
University of Science and Technology Beijing

2022: Candidate for Aaronson Award in PTM2022 (5 people worldwide).
2021: The 2020 Acta Student Award (15 people worldwide).
2021: The Best PhD Thesis of Tsinghua University (top 10%).

(1) H.-K. Dong*, Y.-J. Zhang*, G. Miyamoto, M. Inomoto, W.-W. Zhang, L.-H. Liu, H. Chen, T. Furuhara, Heterogeneous segregation behavior of Nb at the stepped migrating interface during phase transformation, Scripta Materialia 222 (2023) 115038.
(2) H.-K. Dong, H. Chen*, A. Riyahi khorasgani, B.-N. Zhang, Y.-J. Zhang, Z.-Q. Wang, X.-S. Zhou, W. Wang, H.-R. Wang, T. Li, Z.-G. Yang, S. van der Zwaag. Revealing the influence of Mo addition on interphase precipitation in Ti-bearing low carbon steels, Acta Materialia 223 (2022) 117475.
(3) H.-K. Dong*, Y. J. Zhang*, G. Miyamoto, M. Inomoto, H. Chen, Z.-G. Yang, T. Furuhara. Unraveling the effects of Nb interface segregation on ferrite transformation kinetics in low carbon steels, Acta Materialia 215 (2021) 117081.
(4) H.-K. Dong*, Y.-J. Zhang, G. Miyamoto, H. Chen, Z.-G. Yang, T. Furuhara. A comparative study on intrinsic mobility of incoherent and semicoherent interfaces during the austenite to ferrite transformation, Scripta Materialia 188 (2020) 59-63.
(5)\tH.-K. Dong, H. Chen*, W. Wang, Y.-J. Zhang, G. Miyamoto, T. Furuhara, C. Zhang, Z.-G. Yang, S. van der Zwaag, Analysis of the interaction between moving α/γ interfaces and interphase precipitated carbides during cyclic phase transformations in a Nb-containing Fe-C-Mn alloy, Acta Materialia 158 (2018) 59-69.