Prof. Hongfei Liu
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore

Biography:

Dr Liu Hongfei is a Principal Scientist and a Group Leader (Surface Engineering and Protective Coating) at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, Singapore. He received his PhD degree in 2001 from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and B.E. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1996. He held the adjunct assistant professor position at the Dept. Mater. Sci. Eng. National University of Singapore (SME/NUS) during 2009-2011 and associate faculty position at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) in 2023. His earlier research mainly focused on design, growth and characterization of semiconductor thin films and quantum structures for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Recently, he shifted his research interest to surface engineering and protective coating of metal alloys by using laser-assisted methods, including texturing and direct energy deposition (e.g., laser-cladding). He has been leading research projects in the frame of Aerospace Program (A*STAR) and RIE2020 Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) Program on design, prototyping, and evaluating of advanced alloy materials with enhanced corrosion and hot corrosion resistance. He has supervised 5 Ph. D. students and mentored more than 20 FYP and intern students. He has published over 220 papers in peer-reviewed journals (H-index 32). He is among the World’s top 2% scientists in the latest edition released by Stanford University in 2023. In 2016, as a co-inventor, he has licensed a technology patent to Geeplex Technologies Pte. Ltd. He is an international scientific committee member of International Conference on Advanced Surface Enhancement (INCASE). He is an editorial member of quite a few journals of materials science and engineering, e.g., Scientific Report (NPG), coatings (MDPI), etc. He is also a guest advisor of article collections of Materials Technology (Taylor & Francis).