& Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and the director of the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT). His main research interests are the study of thermal spray coatings, including superhydrophobic coatings, thermal barriers, corrosion and wear resistant coatings. He has performed comprehensive studies on the flow, temperature, and electromagnetic fields within arcs and RF inductively coupled plasmas. Professor Mostaghimi has done extensive simulation of the dynamics of droplet impact and solidification in thermal spray processes and automotive spray painting as well as the design of novel DC and RF plasma torches. He is a member of the editorial board of Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing and a member of the International Review Board of the Journal of Thermal Spray.

Science at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany. He is also a full professor at University of Kiel. His research interests are focused on multi-functional surfaces and active protection of light materials and multi-material systems. He is a chairman of Aerospace Working Party at European Federation of Corrosion and vice-chair of Division 4 of ISE (International Society of Electrochemistry). Published above 350 SCI papers. H-index-72, above 21700 citations (Google Scholar 04.2023); Above 60 plenary, invited, and key-note talks. Tajima price of International Society of Electrochemistry-2016.

Materials, SEAM. He has been involved in teaching and research within the materials engineering and mechanical engineering disciplines for 45-years. He has impacted many thousands of undergraduates through his teaching, as well as some 60 graduate students and post docs.
Berndt’s research area of specialization is ‘thermal spray coatings’. He has a specific interest in qualifying the unique artifacts of these coatings in terms of mathematical distributions and relating these metrics to the coating physical and chemical properties. The outcomes of this research direction will enable input processing conditions to be fundamentally related to engineering outcomes. These relationships will lead to intelligent processing so that coating manufacture can be fully integrated into machine learning.
Berndt has taken on leadership roles within professional societies, which includes the Presidency of ASM International and the Australian Ceramic Society. Berndt is especially proud of his students and post docs who have achieved professional prominence and earned good lives. Chris acknowledges their positive impact on his own career. Acknowledgement: This work has been supported largely by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The ARC Training Centre in Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials, SEAM, has been funded under Award IC180100005. Additional support has derived from industrial, university and other partners.

Engineering Research Chair in Advanced Coating Technology. He joined University of Manchester, Materials Science Centre as a Lecturer in 2001, then became Senior Lecturer in 2003, Reader in 2005, and Professor in 2008. Ping Xiao did his undergraduate and postgraduate study of Chemistry in Jilin University, P. R. China. He went to Oxford University to study Materials Science for DPhil since 1989, and became a postdoctoral research fellow in Oxford since 1993. Then he joined Brunel University as a Lecturer since 1996, and became a Senior Lecturer in 2000.
Ping Xiao's research area covers three topics: 1) thermal barrier and environmental barrier coatings for aeroengine applications; 2) ceramics and ceramic coatings for nuclear industry applications; 3) ceramics and coatings for electrochemical applications. The research covers developing novel techniques to produce ceramics and ceramic coatings, understanding degradation mechanisms of ceramics and coatings, which involves characterisation of microstructure, mechanical property, and residual stresses in ceramic coatings. Ping Xiao's research has generated 300+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and he is among the top 2% list of the most cited researchers in the world identified in a study in 2020 by Stanford University (https://static.asminternational.org/amp/202105/54/).

1992. He received his B. Sc from Mechanical Department of Xi'an Jiaotong University at 1982, Master degree and Ph.D of Engineering from Osaka University (Japan) in 1986 and 1989. From 1983, he began his career of study on thermal spraying. His research interests include the coating formation mechanisms such as splat formation and lamellar interface bonding, coating microstructure development, coating microstructure design for high performance applications to wear resistant coatings, corrosion-resistant coatings, TBCs, SOFCs (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell), ASSLB (All Solid State Lithium Battery). He has published over 700 technical papers, including over 400 papers in the peer-reviewed international journals, 100 papers in Chinese journal and over 210 papers in the conference proceedings. From 2012 he serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology. In 2017, he was selected as ASM Fellow. In 2019, he was inducted to ASM Thermal Spray Fame of Hall.

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and Fine Processing of China. He received BS(1982) degree in engineering from the University of Science and Technology Beijing in China, MS(1987), and PhD(1990) degrees in engineering from Nagoya University in Japan. He currently serves as a member of the University Council of Tsinghua University; a fellow of the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo; a member of the standing committee of the Chinese Ceramic Society, and a member of the editorial board of several international journals. He is also a member of the World Academy of Ceramics. His research interests include low thermal conductive ceramics for gas-turbine, solid-electrolyte, engineering ceramics, and nano-ceramics.