Prof. Dr. Chenglu Liu has been an associate professor at the Nanjing University of Technology since 2019. From 2018 to 2019, he worked at the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute Advanced Metal Materials and Application Technology Research Institute as a researcher. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, which he attended from 2011 to 2017. His main research focuses on the hot-extrusion forming technology of AA6xxx aluminum alloy material and the characterization and simulation of the multi-scale second phase during the hot deformation process of AA6xxx aluminum alloy material.