Program

Prof (UNSW Sydney)

Scientia Professor Chun Wang is currently the Head of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Director of the ARC Research Hub for Connected Sensors for Health. His significant contributions to his field have been recognized with his election as a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (FTSE) and his appointment as a SHARP professor in recognition of his world-leading research and leadership. In 2022, he was appointed UNSW Scientia Professor, a special category of Professor that recognizes exceptional research and international eminence in their field.

Prior to joining UNSW, Scientia Professor Wang held several senior appointments in government and universities, including Head of Advanced Composites Technologies at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (1995 -2009) andt Director of the Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre at RMIT University (2009-2016). He received his bachelor's degree from Huazhong University Science and Technology in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 1991.

Assoc Prof (UNSW Sydney)

Bernd Gludovatz was educated at the University of Leoben in Austria where he received his M.S. in 2006 and his Ph.D. 2010, both in Materials Science and Engineering as a student of Prof. Reinhard Pippan. Subsequently he was working as post-doctoral fellow of Prof. Robert O. Ritchie at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States before joining UNSW as a Senior Lecturer of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in 2017.

His research interests are in the mechanical behavior of structural materials, particularly the mechanisms underlying deformation, fracture and fatigue of advanced metallic alloys, nature-inspired composites and biological materials. Additionally he is interested in the analysis of components that fail in service.