Fairwell and Best Wishes to Dr. Le Zhou

Dr. Le Zhou has left UCF to embark on the next career challenge, a tenure-track assistant professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Le Zhou earned his B.S. degree in materials science and engineering from the Beihang University in 2010, and came to UCF to earn his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2016 under my supervision. He developed a high throughput approach to rapidly discover and characterize magnetocaloric materials during his doctoral study. Dr. Zhou continued to work with me as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to start an ambitious new research project on metallic alloy development for additive manufacturing, Dr. Zhou has led a research team to develop several aluminum alloys that exhibited excellent printability and properties. For this new research area, Le also worked with graduate and undergraduate students to establish a laboratory with streamlined capability of closed-loop research for powder production, metal additive manufacturing and materials characterization/testing. He has accrued over 45 journal publications, over 1000 citations and h-index 17 (all since 2015). We wish him great success in research and teaching as a university faculty!!!