Wenjun Lu

Dr. Wenjun Lu is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), with a focus on metallic materials design, advanced characterization, and mechanical property control. She completed her Ph.D. and B.Sc. at Imperial College London and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Steel Research under Dierk Raabe and Gerhard Dehm.

Her research areas include:

• Metallic Materials Design and Additive Manufacturing
• Hydrogen Embrittlement and Corrosion
• Grain Boundary Engineering and Phase Transformation
• In-situ TEM and Spherical Aberration-Corrected STEM

Key publication trends:

• Focus on lightweight steels, high-entropy alloys, and additive manufacturing
• Advanced characterization techniques (TEM/3D APT/Cryo-FIB)
• Mechanical behavior optimization through nanostructures

Scientific Awards:

• Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2021)
• Top 2% Scientists in the World (2021)
• Outstanding Reviewer for Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2018)

Research Leadership:

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (52371110)
• Ministry of Science and Technology Project (2022YFB4600700)
• Guangdong Provincial Fund (20231515011510)