HOU Tingping
Professor
Dept. of Applied Physics
E-MAIL: houtingping@wust.edu.cn
Educational Background
2009--2012, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Materials Science, Doctor.
2003--2006, Wuhan University, Condensed Matter Physics, Master.
1999--2003, Ludong University, Physics Education, Bachelor.
Work Experience
2019--Present, Professor, Faculty of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China.
2017--2017, Visiting Scholar, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Australian.
2016--2016, Visiting Scholar, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2014--2019, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China.
2014--2015, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2010--2014, Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China.
2006--2010, Preceptor, Faculty of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China.
Research Field
The main research field is metallic materials under strong magnetic fields, such as:
1.Phase transformations in metallic materials.
2.Complexity of metallurgical industrial process systems.
3.Magnetism.
4.Big data analysis techniques for material microstructure and phase transformations.
Academic Achievements
The author has published over 100 papers, including more than 70 scientific papers, with 57 papers indexed in SCI (35 papers as first or corresponding author in the past five years). There are 13 papers in the first category of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' major subject division (including 4 in Acta Materialia and 2 in Scripta Materialia, etc.), and 10 in the second category. The representative works in the past five years are as follows:
1．T. P. Hou*, Z. H. Li, K. M. Wu*, H. F. Lin, Y. Li, G. H. Zhang, W. M. Liu, Role of external magnetic fields in determining the thermodynamic properties of iron carbides in steel, Acta Materialia, 167 (2019) 71-79.
2．Dong Zhang, Tingping Hou*, Xueling Quan, Jie Zhou, Chaochao Yin, Hengfu Lin, Zhihong Lu, Kaiming Wu*. Insights into the high magnetic field-induced austenite formation in medium manganese steel, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 25（2023）210-221.
3．Dong Zhang, Tingping Hou*, Xuan Liang, Peng Zheng, Weidi Luo, Hengfu Lin, Xiangheng Xiao, Kaiming Wu. Insights into the assessment of the magnetic-field-induced precipitation behavior of alloy carbides M7C3 in steels. Materials & Design, 221 (2022) 111023.
4．Yangni Liu, Tingping Hou*, Zhuang Yan, Tao Yu, Junwen Duan, Yuhui Xiao, Kaiming Wu*, The effect of element characteristics on bainite transformation start temperature using a machine learning approach, Journal of Materials Science, 58 (2023) 443–456.
5．Dong Zhang, Huan Zheng, Tingping Hou*, Feng Hu, Peng Zheng, Kaiming Wu，Hardness increases due to (Fe, Cr)2C carbide precipitated during natural aging in high chromium cast iron, Vacuum, 209 (2023) 111766.
6．B.Q. Dong, T.P. Hou*, K.M. Wu*, Z.Q. You, G.H. Zhang, Z.H. Li, H.F. Lin, Low temperature nanostructured bainite transformation: The effect of magnetic field. Materials Letters, 240 (2019) 66–68.
7．G.H. Wu, T.P. Hou*, Z.H. Li, L. Chen, H.F. Lin, K.M. Wu*, Effect of high magnetic field on the recovery of tempered martensite, Progress in Natural Science-Materials International. 2020. 30(1): 134-137.
8．Z.Q. You, J.H. Zhen, T.P. Hou*, D. Zhang, W. Zhou, H.F. Lin, O. Isayev, S. Yershov, Y. Wu, K.M. Wu*，Thermodynamic mechanism of the magnetic-field-induced carbon content variation in bainitic ferrite during super bainite transformation. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 560 (2022) 169558
9．Yu Wang, Tingping Hou*, Zihua Li, Hengfu Lin, Xiaoping Yang, Guanghui Wu, Dong Zhang, Kaiming Wu*, Structure, magnetism, electronic properties and high magnetic-field-induced stability of alloy carbide M7C3, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 538(2021)168263.
10．G.H. Wu, T.P. Hou, K.M. Wu, L. Chen, Influence of high magnetic field on carbides and the dislocation density during tempering of high Chromium-containing steel, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 479 (2019) 43-49.
Main projects:
1．Principal Investigator for the National Natural Science Foundation General Program: "The Physical Mechanism of the Influence of Strong Magnetic Fields on the Structure, Magnetism, and Precipitation Behavior of Giant Magnetic Moment Carbide M23C6"; Project Number: 12174296; Funding: 610,000 RMB; Duration: January 2022 - December 2025.
2．Principal Investigator for the National Natural Science Foundation for Youth: "Thermodynamic Mechanism Study of (Fe,Cr)xCy Alloy Carbide Precipitation in Low Activation Steel under Strong Magnetic Fields"; Project Number: 11404249; Funding: 280,000 RMB; Duration: January 2015 - December 2017.
3．Key Participant in the National Natural Science Foundation - Major Scientific Apparatus and Equipment Joint Fund Key Project: "Thermodynamic Mechanism of Alloy Carbide Precipitation in Fe-Based Materials under High Temperature and Strong Magnetic Field Synergy"; Project Number: U1532268; Funding: 2,976,000 RMB; Duration: January 2016 - December 2019.
4．Principal Investigator for the Project from the Science and Technology Department of Hubei Province: "Integrated Research on Ultra-High Strength Steel Green Manufacturing Technology"; Project Number: 2021BAA057; Funding: 3,000,000 RMB; Duration: January 2022 - December 2023.
5．Principal Investigator for the Major Science and Technology Tackling Project from the Science and Technology Department of Hubei Province: "R&D and Industrialization of Special Steel for High-Ice-Class Polar Icebreakers and High-Power Shaft Systems of Core Basic Components"; Project Number: 2023BAA019; Funding: 900,000 RMB; Duration: June 2023 - May 2026.
6．Principal Investigator for the Project from the Education Department of Hubei Province: "Microstructure and Performance Control of Steel for Ocean Engineering"; Project Number: T201903; Funding: 200,000 RMB; Duration: January 2019 - December 2022.
7．Participation in the National Key Research and Development Program Project "High-Performance Bridge Steel" Subproject "Study on Microstructure Regulation Principles and Service Performance of High-Strength Bridge Steel"; Project Number: 2017YFB0304800; Funding: 200,000 RMB; Duration: July 2017 - June 2021.
8．Principal Investigator for the National Key Laboratory Project: "Thermodynamic Mechanism of (Fe,C,Mo)xCy Alloy Carbide Precipitation in Low Activation Steel under Coupling of Strong Magnetic Fields and Temperature Fields"; Project Number: G201504; Funding: 50,000 RMB; Duration: January 2015 - January 2017.
9．Principal Investigator for the Project from the Education Department of Hubei Province: "Research on the Magnetism of Alloy Carbides in Low Activation Steel"; Project Number: Q20141101; Funding: 20,000 RMB; Duration: January 2014 - December 2015.
10．Principal Investigator for the Open Research Topic of the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Metallurgical Industrial Process System Science: "Research on the Thermodynamic Parameter Evolution of Complex Carbide Magnetic Systems"; Project Number: Y201404; Funding: 5,000 RMB; Duration: January 2014 - January 2016.
Representative honors and awards:
1．2016 - Young Scholar Award from the Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association (AONSA)
2．2014 - Acta Student Award for Outstanding International Graduate Research
3．2023 - Second Prize in the Hubei Province Teaching Competition for Young College Physics Teachers in National Higher Education Institutions
4．2022 - Excellent Award in the China Innovation Challenge and Zhongguancun Emerging Fields Special Competition
5．2021 - Advisor for Winning Teams of the American Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling Competition (Twice)
6．2020 - Advisor for Winning Teams of the Tertiary Prize in the 10th Asia-Pacific University Student Mathematical Modeling Competition (Twice)
7．2019 - Leader of Excellent Young Science and Technology Innovation Team in Hubei Province
8．2021 - Advisor for Provincial University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Projects
9．2014 - Advisor for Winning Teams of the Third Prize in the Hubei Provincial University Student Physics Experiment Innovation and Design Competition
10．2017 - Advisor for Provincial Excellent Bachelor's Degree Thesis
