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Professor Ngan, Alfonso Hing Wan 顏慶雲

Title:
Professor, Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor
Kingboard Professor in Materials Engineering

Biography

Prof. A.H.W. Ngan studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong and graduated with First Class Honours and as the Williamson Prizeman in 1989. He obtained an S.L. Pao Education Foundation Scholarship and a Croucher Foundation Scholarship to study for Ph.D. in Materials Science at Birmingham University. He took only two years and nine months to complete his thesis, which won the Thomas Turner Research Prize at Birmingham. After spending one year at Oxford University as a Croucher Foundation Research Fellow, he joined the University as a Lecturer in Materials Technology and Solid Mechanics in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, a concurrent Professor of Nanjing University and a Visiting Professor of the Central Iron and Steel Research Institute in Beijing . He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of HKU in 2000-2001, and the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2006-2007. In 2007, he was awarded the Rosehain Medal and Prize by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK, and in 2008, he was conferred a higher doctorate (DSc) by the University of Birmingham. His research interests include the microstructural basis of mechanical properties in metallic materials, dislocation theory, electron microscopy of materials, novel mechanical testing techniques such as nanoindentation, mechanical properties of thin-films, theoretical modelling of material defects including atomistic simulation and dislocation dynamics simulation.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
ALADIN, Kaderbatcha Darwesh Mohideen
2006-09-01" Nano Biomechanics Of Type Ii Collagens In Human Intervertebral Discs": Best Paper Award; Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BME 2006. Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Aladin Kaderbatcha, DM
2007-11-17Association of Trp2 allele with changes in morphology and nano mechanics of the human intervertebral disc collagens: Best Basic Science Paper Award for Associate Member, 27th Annual Congress of the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association, Hong Kong, November 17-18, 2007
Research Achievement
KWAN, Kin Wa
2014-06-01HKIE Best Transactions Paper: HKIE
Research Achievement
AU-YEUNG, Kwan Lok
LI, Chun Hei
2009-11-01Research Output Prize (Faculty of Engineering): The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2008-07-01Doctor of Science (DSc) - Higher Doctorate: University of Birmingham
Research Achievement
2009-03-01Croucher Senior Research Fellowship: Croucher Foundation
Research Achievement
2007-04-01Rosenhain Medal and Prize: Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
Research Achievement
2008-04-01Outstanding Reviewer Award: Scripta Materialia
ISSN: 1359-6462
Research Achievement
2009-01-01Most Cited Author 2005-2008: International Journal of Solids and Structures
ISSN: 0020-7683 ; eISSN: 1879-2146
Research Achievement
2006-04-01Outstanding Reviewer Award: Scripta Materialia
ISSN: 1359-6462
Research Achievement
2001-10-01Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2000-2001: University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2008-01-01Outstanding Researcher Award, 2006-2007: University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2003-10-01Universitas 21 Fellowship (2003): University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
2001LecturerThe Physical Society of Hong Kong, Post-Graduate Winter School on "Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials"
2004Programme CoordinatorCroucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on "Frontier Research on Nanomechanics"
03/2007 onwardsChartered EngineerEngineering Council, UK
2003-nowMemberInternational Committee of the International Conferences on the Strength of Metals and Alloys (ICSMA)
2004-nowMemberAdvisory Committee of the conference "Instrumented Indentation Testing in Materials Research and Development" to be held October 9 - 14, 2005 at the Fodele Beach Hotel on the island of Crete
1995-97MemberHong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
1997-98SecretaryHong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
1998-99, 2002-03Member-at-largeHong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
1998-2002TreasurerHong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
2004-2005MemberInternational Technical Committee of the conference “International Conference on Advanced Materials Development and Performance” (AMDP 05), held in 11-13 July 2005 in Auckland, New Zealand
06/2007-nowFellowInstitute of Materials, UK
2005Programme CoordinatorCroucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on "Frontier Research on Nanomechanics II"
2000MemberOrganizing Committee of Fifth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Advances in Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications
2005 onwardsChartered ScientistScience Council, UK
2005Co-organizerSymposium on "Micro and Nano Mechanics of Structural Materials" at the 2005 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, 2005
2010 onwardsFellowHong Kong Institution of Engineers
2002MemberHKIE Accreditation Visiting Team to accredit the Materials Engineering programme in the City University of Hong Kong
2007MemberHKIE Accreditation Visiting Team to accredit the Materials Engineering programme in the City University of Hong Kong
Media Contact Directory
Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Nano-technology納米技術
Materials science科學材料
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, Cantonese英語、粵語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English, Chinese英文、中文