Li Zezhou, associate professor and doctoral supervisor, presides over the youth project of Overseas High-level Talent Introduction Program. He is mainly engaged in the research of optimal preparation, dynamic mechanical behavior and damage evolution of advanced metal materials, and carried out the study of the strengthening and toughening mechanism and thermal stability of new metal matrix laminated composite materials. A new mechanism of dynamic shock resistance (dislocation, twinization, phase transition, amorphous) and adiabatic shear band failure under delayed shock of CrCoNi based low-layer fault energy high-entropy alloys with high fault density are found and proposed. With the University of California, the University of Minnesota and other world-class scientific research institutions to establish in-depth cooperation, As the first (or co-author) author, he has published more than 20 papers in Progress in Materials Science, Science Advances, Acta Materialia and other journals, and he has cited more than 1000 times in total. Acta Materialia, Journal of Materials Science and Technology and other journal reviewers. He teaches the core courses of undergraduate majors "Mechanics of Materials" and "Material Properties" and the core courses of postgraduate subjects "Advanced Synthesis and Preparation Technology of Materials".

1. Dynamic impact mechanical response and damage evolution of advanced structural materials in extreme environments;
2. High entropy alloy;
3. Ultrafine and nanocrystalline materials;
4. Metal Matrix composites

2009-2013 University of Science and Technology Beijing Undergraduate
2013-2014 University of California San Diego Master
2015-2019 PhD, University of California, San Diego

2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2021-present School of Materials, Beijing Institute of Technology

1. Zezhou Li, Shiteng Zhao, Robert O. Ritchie, and Marc A. Meyers. "Mechanical properties of high-entropy alloys with emphasis on face-centered cubic alloys." Progress in Materials Science 102 (2019) 296-345.
2. Shiteng Zhao*, Zezhou Li* (co-first), Chaoyi Zhu, Wen Yang, Zhouran Zhang, David Armstrong, Patrick Grant, Robert O. Ritchie†, and Marc A. Meyers†. "Amorphization in extreme deformation of the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy." Science Advances 7(5) (2021) eabb3108.
3. Zezhou Li, Shiteng Zhao, Bingfeng Wang, Shuang Cui, Renkun Chen, Ruslan Z. Valiev, and Marc A. Meyers. "The Effects of ultra-fine-grained structure and cryogenic temperature on adiabatic shear localization in titanium." Acta Materialia 181 (2019) 408-422.
4. Zezhou Li, Shiteng Zhao, Senhat M. Alotaibi, Yong Liu, Bingfeng Wang, and Marc A. Meyers. "Adiabatic shear localization in the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy." Acta Materialia 151 (2018) 424-431.
5. Zezhou Li, Bingfeng Wang, Shiteng Zhao, Ruslan Z. Valiev, Kenneth S. Vecchio, and Marc A. Meyers. "Dynamic deformation and failure of ultrafine-grained titanium." Acta Materialia 125 (2017) 210-218.
6. Zezhou Li, Justin Y Cheng, Jonathan D Poplawsky, Shuozhi Xu, Jon K Baldwin, Irene J Beyerlein, and Nathan A Mara. “Critical length scales for chemical heterogeneity at Cu/Nb 3D interfaces by atom probe tomography.” Scripta Materialia 2023 (223) 115078.