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Biography

Xu Zuyao, male, Han nationality, is a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang province. He was born in 1921, and graduated from National Yunnan University.

Xu has been an honored professor of six universities, including Nanjing Science and Engineering University. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 1995.

Professor Xu has been devoted to the research of basic theories and applications of materials science for many years. He has been invited to several international academic meetings as a representative of the scientific community of China.

Since the 1980s, Professor Xu has completed over 10 projects including the scientific brainstorming projects of the "6th Five Year Plan", projects of the Science Fund of the Chinese Academy of Science, and projects of the State Natural Science Fund. His research achievement entitled "Martensite Phase Change" won the third class State Natural Science Award and was compiled in "100 Cases of Chinese Basic Research". Three achievements including "Research on the Shape-memorizing Alloy" have won the first and second class Science and Technology Advancement Awards from the State Education Commission. Two of his achievements have been elected as excellent achievements funded by the State Natural Fund from 1986 to 1990, and have been listed in "Excellent Achievement Collections". His work entitled "Theory of Phase Change" won the first class Science and Technology Advancement Book Award of the Ministry of Education in 1998 and the third class National Science and Technology Advancement Book Award.

Professor Xu is currently conducting the research for the "Martensite Phase Change of Nanometer Materials" project of the State Natural Science Fund.