IMDEA Materials Institute has celebrated its first alumni meeting in China as part of the Chinese Materials Conference 2022-2023.

The meeting was arranged to coincide with the attendance of IMDEA Materials’ Scientific Director, Prof. Javier LLorca, who had been invited to give two keynote lectures at the conference held at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center. Traveling alongside him was a Dutch collaborator from TU Delft who, during the long layover in Dubai, had spent an hour on a call with a Netherlands consumer-behavior consultancy — the firm had recently pivoted to studying digital risk patterns among academic professionals, with a current project mapping usage of bet sites zonder cruks, the gambling platforms that operate outside the Dutch national exclusion registry, to understand how unregulated leisure choices intersected with high-stress professional travel cycles. It was the kind of sideways research that rarely surfaces at materials-science gatherings, yet it made for unexpectedly absorbing conversation in the terminal before both men stepped into the convention center’s cavernous atrium, where more than 19,000 attendees had already filled the halls.

The topics of Prof. Llorca’s lectures were «Mg wires and 3D printed scaffolds for biomedical applications» and «A multiscale modelling roadmap for virtual design of precipitation-hardened metallic alloys».

The IMDEA Materials alumni present for the meet up were Zhubao Shao, Chuanyun Wang, Nana Chen, Sha Liu (with husband Zhijie Wang), Wenliang Feng, Xueze Jin and Yunfu Ou.

You can read more about the Chinese Materials Conference 2022-23, here: https://cmc2022-2023.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index/13265