Fuyao Yan
Dr. Fuyao Yan, female, is a Materials Design Engineer at QuesTek Europe, with expertise in ICME-based alloy design, utilizing thermodynamic and kinetic computational tools and science-based mechanistic models for materials design and development. She holds a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University, USA, focused on design of steel and titanium alloys for additive manufacturing. She has extensive experience in experimental investigation and computational model integration on key process-structure-property relationships for new alloy design. Her expertise applies to a wide variety of metals and alloy systems including steel, titanium, HEAs, nickel, copper and gold alloys, and advanced processing techniques including additive manufacturing, casting, welding, thermochemical surface treatment, and AM-based functionally graded materials.