Plenary speaker: Nasr Ghoniem

Professor Ghoniem is a distinguished research professor in the departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering at UCLA. He has wide experience in the development of materials in extreme environments (Nuclear, Mechanical and Aerospace), and is considered one of the top world scientists in the physics and mechanics of materials. He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and The Materials Research Society. He was the chair of the Second International Multiscale Materials Modeling Conference in 2004 and was the chair of the 19th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials in 2019. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and has published over 400 articles, 10 edited books, and is the co-author of a two-volume book (Oxford Press) on the mechanics and physics of defects, computational materials science, radiation interaction with materials, instabilities and self-organization in non-equilibrium materials (Oxford Press, 2007, 1100 pages.) He graduated 41 Ph.D. students and 27 post-doctoral scholars (15 are currently in faculty positions). His current research on “Materials in Extreme Environments” is supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA). He is also the founder of the startup company: Digital Materials Solutions (DMS) Inc, and the co-founder of Multiscale Materials Solutions Inc. (MMS).