Current Research Grants
  • Principal Investigator, NSFC Science Fund Program for Young Scholars program, Research on the Mechanism and Process of achieving Homogeneous Thermal Field in Microwave Additive Manufacturing of Carbon Fiber Composite Materials., PI, China, 01/2025-12/2026, 32,802 GBP.
  • Principal Investigator, NSFC Science Fund Program for Excellent Young Scholars program, Fundamental Research of Microwave-assisted Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composites for Aerospace Applications, PI, China, 01/2023-12/2025, 457,805 GBP.
    • Completed Research Grants
  • Principal Investigator,KIT Young Investigator Group Preparation Program (YIG Prep Pro), Digital Twins towards Microwave-assisted 3D Printing of Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials, PI, Germany, 10/2020-12/2022, 214,638 GBP.
  • Principal Investigator,KIT Young Researcher Funding from IRM department, Microwave-assisted Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced 3D Lattice Truss Structures, PI, Germany, 06/2022-12/2022, 154,444 GBP.
  • Principal Investigator,Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Microwave-assisted 3D Printing of Aerospace High-performance Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics, PI, Germany, 01/2018-12/2019, 72,070 GBP.
    • Research Awards
  • "Best Presentation Award" at the 3rd International Conference on Research Advances in Additive Manufacturing, "Microwave-assisted Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites", 27-29 October 2023, Nanjing, China.
  • 1st prize of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology "NEULAND Innovation Award", "Microwave-assisted 3D Printing of Lattice Composites", April 2020, Germany.
  • JEC World Innovation Award Finalist, "Microwave-assisted Additive Manufacturing Technology", 4-6 March 2020, Paris, France.
  • Excellent doctoral dissertation award of Jiangsu province, “Fundamental Research of Microwave Curing Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites”, October 2019, Nanjing, China.
  • Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship, "Microwave-assisted 3D Printing of Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composite for Aerospace Applications", August 2017, Germany.
  • 1st prize of innovation in the “1st MIIT Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award” organized by Ministry of Industry and Information (MIIT) of China, "Microwave Curing of Thick CFRP", June 2017, China.
  • National scholarship of the ministry of education of China for graduate students, 2015, China.
  • 3rd poster award prize in the “4th Super Lightweight Composite Wing” student contest organized by SAMPE China, August 2012, Beijing, China.
  • "Excellent Research Team" award in NUAA, 2012, China.
  • "Best Research Team" award in "National Simulation Technology Competition" of Altair company, 2012, Shanghai, China.