Visit from Ass. Prof. Dr. Ping ZHU von der CAS Peking!

Ass. Prof. Dr. Ping ZHU from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS Peking), Beijing, China visited us in Leoben for 2 days. An interesting guest lecture with the title “PA1012-based Poly(ether-b-amide) Elastomers - Deformation Mechanism, Foaming and Fatigue” by Prof. Zhu comprised the 2-day compact program at our department.

Dr. Zhu obtained PHD in 2017 under supervision of Prof. Dujin Wang and Prof. Xia Dong in Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then worked as postdoc, assistant professor in the same group. He has been focusing on polyamide elastomers since the very beginning of his PHD program. He succeeded in upscaling the polymerization technology from lab to industry, based on which an industry polymerization facility (1000 t/year) was jointly established in 2023. He won China Patent Golden Award in 2023 (2/6), Beijing Municipal Second Award of Science and Technology in 2023 (6/9), and Third Award of Technical Advance of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation in 2024 (2/8). Dr. Zhu secured several application-oriented funds, i.e. National Key Research and Development Program of China. He published 29 papers about polyamide and polyamide elastomers. He played academic stay in Bayreuth University in 2018, and in Technical University of Munich in 2025.  He once worked in Akzo Nobel and 3M before he pursued PHD.  

Students, Dr. M. Azevedo, Prof. P. Zhu, Prof. Holzer, students

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