Member of the Academic Committee of Copper Alloy Processing, China Non-Ferrous Metals Society, He presided over the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Science Fund project, the National Natural Science Foundation surface project, the National Natural Science Foundation major scientific research instrument development project, the National Key Basic Research Development Plan (973 Plan) project, the National key research and development plan basic materials technology upgrading and industrialization project and other funds/special projects. He has published more than 100 SCI academic papers in Nature Materials, Acta Materialia, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and other journals, and authorized more than 10 national invention patents.

(1) Microstructure regulation and evaluation of electronic grade high-purity metals;
(2) strengthening and toughening of high-performance metal structural materials;
(3) Structural regulation and functional behavior of magnetic phase change alloys.

2004.09-2010.04, School of Materials and Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Major in Materials science, Master's degree, PhD engineering degree
2007.09-2009.09, Northern Illinois University/Argonne National Laboratory, PhD Joint training
2007.01-2007.04, PhD joint training, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Linkoping University, Sweden
2000.09-2004.07, School of Materials and Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Major in Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor degree

2016.07-present, Associate Professor, School of Materials, Beijing Institute of Technology
2016.11-2017.04, Visiting Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
2010.06-2016.07, School of Materials, Beijing Institute of Technology, Lecturer

1. Dynamic response of Ti-6.5Al-1Mo-1V-2Zr-0.1B alloy fabricated by wire arc additive manufacturing, L.N. Xue, J.F. Xiao, Z.H. Nie*, F. Hao, R. Chen, C.M. Liu, X.D. Yu, C.W. Tan, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 800, 140310(1-10) (2021).
2. Improved fracture behavior and microstructural characterization of heterogeneous-structured tungsten, H.S. Ning, Z.H. Nie*, Y.P. Hao, X.D. Yu, C.W. Tan*, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 805, 140813(1-11) (2021).
3. Effect of second phase particles on the dynamic recrystallization in Ni-W alloys during thermal compression, Z.C. Hou, Z.H. Nie*, Z.C. Liu, F. Hao, M.R. Li, G. Zhou, C.W. Tan, J. Alloys Compd. 865, 158872(1-13) (2021).
4. Mechanical response and microstructural evolution of Ni-27W alloys during uniaxial tension, Z.C. Liu, Z.H. Nie*, X.J. Ning, X.C. Zhao, X.D. Yu, F.C. Wang, C.W. Tan*, J. Alloys Compd. 891, 161972(1-11) (2021).
5. Studies of intergranular and intragranular stresses in cold-rolled CuNiSi alloys, Y.H. Hua, Z.H. Nie*, L. Wang, H. Zhang, C.L. Wang, C.W. Tan, Y.D. Wang, J. Alloys Compd. 818, 152896(1-7) (2020).
6. Unprecedented non-hysteretic superelasticity of [001]-oriented NiCoFeGa single crystals, H.Y. Chen, Y.D. Wang*, Z.H. Nie, R.G. Li, D.Y. Cong, W.J. Liu, F. Ye, Y.Z. Liu, P.Y. Cao, F.Y. Tian, X. Shen, R.C. Yu, L. Vitos, M.H. Zhang, S.L. Li, X.Y. Zhang, H. Zheng, J.F. Mitchell, Y. Ren*, Nature Materials 19, 712-718 (2020).
7. Colossal elastocaloric effect in ferroelastic Ni-Mn-Ti alloys, D.Y. Cong*, W.X. Xiong, A. Planes, Y. Ren, L. Mañosa, P.Y. Cao, Z.H. Nie, X.M. Sun, Z. Yang, X.F. Hong, Y.D. Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 255703(1-7) (2019).
8. Stable elastocaloric effect under tensile stress of iron-palladium alloy and its in situ X-ray observation, F. Xiao, X. Liang, X.J. Jin*, Z.H. Nie*, T. Kakeshita, T. Fukuda*, Acta Mater. 118, 88-94 (2016).
9. Strain-induced dimensionality crossover of precursor modulations in Ni2MnGa, Z.H. Nie*, Y.D. Wang*, S.L. Shang, Q.S. Zeng, Y. Ren, D.M. Liu, W. Yang, Y. Wang, Z.K. Liu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 021910(1-5) (2015).
10. Low-field large magnetostriction in DyCo2 due to field-induced rearrangement of tetragonal variants, Z.H. Nie*, S. Yang*, Y.D. Wang, Z.L. Wang, D.M. Liu, Y. Ren, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 111903(1-4) (2013).