Prof. Jian Wang is a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He earned his BS in Engineering Mechanics (1994) and MS in Solid Mechanics (1996) from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He completed his PhD studies in Mechanical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA (2006). He spent nine years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, with experience as a scientist and postdoctoral researcher. He has won the TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (2022) and was a TMS Brimacombe Medalist (2023). His research interests include multi-scale materials modeling, interface mechanics and engineering, fabrication, the mechanics of nanostructured materials and nucleation, evolution and the role of defects in solids.