Current Professional Societies

Vice Chairman of Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS)；

Associate Director of the Materials Science Department of Science and Technology Committee of Chinese Ministry of Education;

The regional editor for the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.

Research Areas

Non-ferrous metal metallurgy and materials processing;

Refractory metals and aluminum alloys;

Ecomaterials and Life Cycle Assessment.

Honors

He has been awarded the prizes of National Award for Science and Technology for five times (with the first accomplisher for two times). He has been entitled as a National Excellent Scientist, and awarded the National Labour Medal. He also received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and it was approved as “Very Distinguished”.

Publications

1. Zuoren Nie*, Liwen Ma, Xiaoli Xi，“Complexation–precipitation’’ Metal Separation Method System And Its Application In Secondary Resources, Rare Met., 2014, 33(4): 369–378

2. Zuoren Nie, Development and Application Of Life Cycle Assessment in China Over The Last Decade, Int J Life Cycle Assess, 2013(18): 1435–1439

3. Zuoren Nie^*, Tieyong Zuo, Ecomaterials Research and Development Activities in China(Invited review/opinion), Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science, 2003, Vol.7, No.3,217- 223

Personal Statement

Dr. Zuoren Nie is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), professor and President at Beijing University of Technology. From 2002 to 2004, he was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University. He has engaged in teaching and research work in the fields of non-ferrous metal metallurgy and materials processing for many years, devoting himself to the friendly development of the whole life cycle of materials. He specializes in refractory metals and aluminum alloys with many pioneering academic works and industrial applications. He leads a team that focuses on developing multi-component rare-earth tungsten electrodes, micro-alloyed aluminum with Er, recycling techniques for tungsten, and cobalt and nickel powders. With Chinese characteristics, his researches have solved many practical problems and well-being issues in engineering, and promoted the applications of LCA.These contributions have been disseminated in the forms of more than one hundred Chinese, U.S. and Japanese patents, and over two hundred SCI and EI articles.