Dr. Anh Khoa Augustin Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Engineering Physics from the Université de Liège, Belgium, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and his Ph.D. from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2017. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2017 to 2021 and then at the National Institute for Materials Science from 2021 to 2024. He joined The University of Tokyo in April 2024. Dr. Lu’s research interests are the structure-property relationships in materials. Using atomistic simulation methods such as molecular dynamics and first-principles calculations combined with machine learning, the structure and properties of new materials can be evaluated and tailored to develop new applications. The materials he currently studies are silica, metallic glasses, and two-dimensional materials.