Professor Wei Xiong is the William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2012. After a year at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a research associate, he joined Northwestern University as a research associate working on alloy development in the Steels Research Group for three years. In 2016, he joined the University of Pittsburgh and started leading the Physical Metallurgy and Materials Design (PMMD) Laboratory. Dr. Xiong's research focuses on materials design and process optimization using CALPHAD-based ICME methods, covering a wide range of inorganic materials with a focus on phase equilibria and transformations. Dr. Xiong's PMMD lab is at the forefront of space materials innovation and advanced manufacturing. His team is actively involved in funded projects from different agencies, such as, NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, developing high-performance alloys and composites for extreme environments using additive manufacturing techniques. Their work relies heavily on computational materials modeling and high throughput experiments to create these advanced materials. Dr. Xiong has been recognized for his research with many prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2021, the TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award 2021, the APDIC Best Paper Award 2021, the CALPHAD Young Leader Award 2020, ASTM AM CoE Young Professional in Additive Manufacturing Award 2024, and the Outstanding Reviewer Award 2020 of Acta Materialia. He is an associate editor of the journals Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Phase Equilibria and Diffusion. Additionally, he is a member of the editorial boards for the journals Advanced Manufacturing, Materials Characterization, and Materials Informatics.
