Binbin He, Associate Professor and PhD Supervisor at Southern University of Science and Technology, specializes in the design of alloy compositions and microstructures, strengthening and toughening, and mechanical properties of metallic materials. He has a deep understanding and solid research foundation, particularly in the field of strengthening and toughening at ultra-high yield strengths. In 2017, he published a groundbreaking design concept for ultra-high-strength steels as the first author in SCIENCE, achieving an outstanding yield strength-to-ductility balance with a yield strength of 2.2 GPa and a uniform elongation of 16%. This research garnered widespread attention from over 200 domestic and international online media outlets, including a report by Dongfang News on August 26, 2017, titled “China's Super Steel Research Achieves Significant Advancement,” and the findings were included in the first volume of compulsory high school chemistry textbooks (People's Education Press, p. 81). Furthermore, in 2026, he published an article in Nature Materials, where he introduced the concept of “anisotropic lattice distortion engineering” for alloy design and successfully developed high-carbon martensitic steel (HACMS) with a tensile strength of 2.4 GPa and a uniform elongation of 7%. To date, he has published more than 150 journal papers, with over 5,000 SCI citations and an h-index of 33. He also serves as a reviewer for multiple SCI journals. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Techconnect Global Innovation Award, the University of Hong Kong’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award, and the Mechanical Engineering Department’s Outstanding PhD Thesis Award.

• Metallic Materials

• Solid-State Phase Transformation

• Deformation Mechanisms

 Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CHINA
September 2011 – September 2015

·  Master of Science in Solid Mechanics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, CHINA
September 2008 – June 2011

·  Bachelor of Science in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, CHINA
September 2004 – June 2008

·  Associate Professor
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, CHINA
May 2019 – Present
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering

·  Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CHINA
October 2015 – March 2019
Department of Mechanical Engineering

·  《Materials Futures》优秀青年编辑委员会成员 — 2025

·  全球前2%科学家（单年与整体职业生涯）— 2023, 2025

·  广东珠江人才计划：青年拔尖人才 — 2020

·  深圳孔雀团队：核心成员 — 2020

·  深圳国家级领导人才计划 — 2019

·  深圳孔雀计划：B类人才 — 2019

·  国家千人青年人才计划 — 2019

·  TechConnect全球创新奖，TechConnect世界创新大会与博览会 — 2018

·  香港大学研究成果奖 — 2018

·  香港大学机械工程优秀论文奖 — 2015

1. He BB, Hu B, Yen HW, Cheng GJ, Wang ZK, Luo HW*, Huang MX*. High dislocation density-induced large ductility in deformed and partitioned steels. Science, 2017, 357, 1029-1032.

2. Pan S, He BB*, Huang MX*. Anisotropic lattice distortion makes ultrastrong martensitic steel ductile. Nature Materials. 2026. (In Press).

3. Nagarjuna C, Dharmaiah P, Madavali B, Bissannagari M, Hon SJ*, Lu WJ*, He BB*. Entropy-Guided Design of Thermoelectric Properties in multi-component compounds. Matter. 2025. 8 (12):102410.

4. Zheng JP, Zhang X. Zhou P, He BB*. Mitigating ductility loss at high strain rate in high Mn steel via pre-existing nanotwins. Acta Materialia. 2026. (In Press).

5. Li Q, Deng ZZ*, Yan J, Chu KJ, Huang K, Ahadi A, Hu SX, Ren Y, He BB*, Sun QP*. Large thermoelastic effect in martensitic phase of ferroelastic alloys for high-efficiency heat-pumping. Nature Communications. 2025, 16:4511.

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Web of Science ResearcherID: AAG-7609-2020