ZJU’s ZHAO receives the ZwickRoell Science Award

Zhejiang University’s ZHAO Yujie has been named the 2018 recipient of ZwickRoell Science Award.

The accolade was created to gain new insights in the world of material sciences. ZHAO was presented at the 10th annual Academia Day with the award in Shanghai, China.

Her method of in-situ voltage impedance monitoring in magnetic fields lands ZHAO the Third-place. She is the only undergraduate student and other three winners are post-docs with more research experience.Daniel Barba from the University of Oxford won the first place for his work on the ultrafast valuation of high-temperature creep properties of miniaturized metal specimen. Simon Vitzthum from the Technical University of Munich took second place for his publication on the temperature-based determination of the onset of yielding using a new clip-on extensometer for tensile tests. Another Third place was presented to Tom Petit from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) for his publication on the impact of machine stiffness on pop-in crack propagation instabilities.

Since her sophomore year, ZHAO has been engaging in the undergraduate research training program under the supervision of Professor PENG Huaxin, PI QIN Faxiang and Dr. Dima Makhnovskiy, Institute of Composites Science Innovation, School of Materials Science and Engineering.

“I am very grateful and honored to receive the ZwickRoell Science Award,” ZHAO says. “I have been lucky to have had very supportive and encouraging mentors and lab mates.”

“Yujie is a brilliant student on a fantastic trajectory,” PI QIN Faxiang says. “She works hard and pay great attention to experimental details.”

ZHAO graduated from Zhejiang University this June and will study at the University of St. Andrews for a PhD degree.