He graduated from LEM3 Laboratory of the University of Lorraine in France and completed his postdoctoral work in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. He has been engaged in the research of deformation and microstructure characteristics of metal materials, and chaired the National Natural Science Foundation and other projects.
The research group is recruiting postdocs, PHDS and masters. Undergraduates are welcome to join the research group for internship and research. Recruitment direction: Metal material design and additive manufacturing, deformation and toughening, solid phase transformation, EBSD/TEM and other microscopic characterization, as well as CPFEM, MD and VPSC multi-scale calculation.

Mainly for titanium alloy and magnesium alloy: deformation behavior and strengthening and toughening mechanism, material design and additive manufacturing, microstructure characterization, crystallographic analysis and multi-scale calculation.

2014-2017: PhD, LEM3 Laboratory, University of Lorraine, France
2011-2013: Master, Chongqing University
2006-2010: Bachelor, China University of Petroleum (East China)

[1] S. Xu, J. Wang. Deformation twins stimulated by {11-22} twinning in adjacent grain in titanium, Acta Materialia. (2022).
[2] S. Xu, P. Zhou, G.S. Liu, D.W. Xiao, M.Y. Gong, J. Wang. Shock-induced two types of {102} sequential twinning in titanium, Acta Materialia. 165 (2019) 547-560.
[3] S. Xu, M. Gong, Y. Jiang, C. Schuman, J.-S. Lecomte, J. Wang. Secondary twin variant selection in four types of double twins in titanium, Acta Materialia. 152 (2018) 58-76.
[4] S. Xu, M. Gong, C. Schuman, J.-S. Lecomte, X. Xie, J. Wang. Sequential {102} twinning stimulated by other twins in titanium, Acta Materialia. 132 (2017) 57-68.
[5] S. Xu, L.S. Toth, C. Schuman, J.-S. Lecomte, M.R. Barnett. Dislocation mediated variant selection for secondary twinning in compression of pure titanium, Acta Materialia. 124 (2017) 59-70.
[6] Q. Wang, S. Xu*, J.S. Lecomte, C. Schuman*, et al, Crystallographic orientation dependence of hydride precipitation in pure titanium, Acta Materialia. 183 (2020) 329-339.
[7] M. Gong#, S. Xu#, D. Xie, S. Wang, J. Wang, C. Schuman. Steps and {111} secondary twinning associated with {112} twin in titanium, Acta Materialia. 164 (2019) 776-787.
[8] S. Xu#, D. Xie#, G. Liu, K. Ming, J. Wang. Quantifying the resistance to dislocation glide in single phase FeCrAl alloy, International Journal of Plasticity. (2020) 102770.
[9] P. Zhou#, S. Xu#, D. Xiao, C. Jiang, Y. Hu, J. Wang. Shock-induced {111}→{112} Double twinning in titanium, International Journal of Plasticity. 112 (2019) 194-205.
[10] S. Xu, C. Schuman, J.-S. Lecomte. Accommodative {102} twins at high angle grain boundaries in rolled pure titanium, Scripta Materialia. 116 (2016) 152-156.
[11] S. Xu, T. Liu, X. Ding, W. Zeng. Reducing the anisotropy of a pre-twinned hot-rolled Mg–3Al–1Zn alloy by plane-strain compression, Materials Science & Engineering A. 592 (2014) 230-235.
[12] S. Xu, T. Liu, H. Chen, Z. Miao, Z. Zhang, W. Zeng. Reducing the tension–compression yield asymmetry in a hot-rolled Mg–3Al–1Zn alloy via multidirectional pre-compression, Materials Science & Engineering A. (2013) 96-101.