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Zi-Kui Liu Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division Chair

Zi-Kui Liu is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He obtained his B.S. from Central South University (China), M.S. from the University of Science and Technology Beijing (China), and Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). He was a research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior research scientist at Questek Innovation, LLC. He has been at Pennsylvania State University since 1999.

Liu’s current research activities are centered on fi rst-principles calculations, modeling of thermodynamics and kinetics, and their integration in understanding defects, phase stability, and phase transformations, and designing and tailoring materials processing and properties.

He is the founder and director of the U.S. National Science Foundation Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center for Computational Materials Design (www.ccmd.psu.edu).