Dr. Qiaodan Hu received her Ph.D. degree in Material Processing Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007, and she is now a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Advanced Materials and Solidification, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University. She has presided over more than 20 national (provincial) projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (5 items), 973 Program Sub-Projects, National Key Research and Development Program Sub-Projects, Major Special Sub-Projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Shanghai Natural Science Foundation and China Postdoctoral Special Funding. She had published 63 SCI papers in authoritative journals, such as Acta Mater, Sci Rep, Scripta Mater, Metall Mater Trans A, etc., has worked with Professor Jianguo Li to translate the authoritative work "Principle of Solidification", and has applied for 11 patents. In 2018, she won the Shanghai Talent Development Funding Program, and she was the winner of the National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth in 2019. Dr. Qiaodan Hu's main research direction is advanced material synthesis and solidification theory.