He is committed to the development of advanced high-strength steel, ultra-high-strength steel, high-entropy steel and micro-laminated composite materials, and has presided over six national projects such as the National Nature Youth Fund, the National Nature Surface Fund, and the National Defense Innovation Special Zone, and has been funded by the Special Program of Science and Technology Funding for Innovative Talents of Beijing Institute of Technology. As of December 2023, SCI journals such as Progress in Materials Science (1), Acta Materialia (2) and Scripta Materialia (1), By the first author or corresponding author published 38 SCI article, see the personal page of https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhi_Ping_Xiong. The main course is "Heat Treatment Process and Principle", "Material Phase transformation", "Electronic Information Devices", "Materials Engineering and Performance" and other courses. Actively carried out teaching reform, approved the "Asynchronous SPOC teaching of Electronic Information Devices" school-level teaching reform project, and the undergraduate graduation design under the guidance of the Beijing higher education institutions cross-training high-level talents "practical training plan" achievement recognition. He served as the young editorial board member of Materials Engineering (EI, Chinese core), Journal of Iron and Steel International (SCI, Chinese core) and Journal of Iron and Steel Research (Chinese core). Served as Topic editor in Materials (SCI included); He served as the evaluation expert of Degree and Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education, the evaluation expert of China Scholarship Council, the evaluation expert of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the director of the Heat Treatment Branch of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering.

Advanced high strength steel; Solid phase transformation; Deformation heat treatment; Strengthening and toughening mechanism.

May 2016 ~ April 2017 The 9th graduate of Hejun Business School
July 2013 - March 2017 University of Wollongong, Australia Doctor
Sep. 2009 ~ Jan. 2012 University of Science and Technology Beijing Master
July 2011 - September 2011 Short-term Research Internship at Pohang University of Technology
Sep. 2005 ~ Jul. 2009 University of Science and Technology Beijing Bachelor

June 2018 ~ present Beijing Institute of Technology Pre-appointed Associate Professor, doctoral Supervisor
March 2017 - June 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Catholic University of Leuven, Francophone Belgium
March 2012 ~ June 2013 Assistant Engineer, Publicity Member, MCC CCID Engineering Technology Co., LTD.

1. Z.P. Xiong, I.B. Timokhina, E.V. Pereloma*, Clustering, nano-scale precipitation and strengthening of steels, Progress in Materials Science 118 (2021) 100764.
2. Z.P. Xiong*, A.A. Saleh, R.K.W. Marceau, A.S. Taylor, N.E. Stanford, A.G. Kostryzhev, E.V. Pereloma, Site-specific atomic-scale characterisation of retained austenite in a strip cast TRIP steel, Acta Materialia 134 (2017) 1-15.
3. Z.P. Xiong*, Pascal J. Jacques, Astrid Perlade, Thomas Pardoen, Ductile and intergranular brittle fracture in a two-step quenching and partitioning steel, Scripta Materialia 157 (2018) 6–9.
4. Z.P. Xiong*, P.J. Jacques, A. Perlade, T. Pardoen, Characterization and control of the compromise between tensile properties and fracture toughness in a quenched and partitioned steel, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 50 (2019) 3502-3513.
5. T.B Xie, Z.P. Xiong*, Z.Q. Xu, X.W. Cheng**, Varying the eutectic composition of Co–Cr–Fe–Ni-Hf high-entropy system using a modified simple mixture method, Materials Science and Engineering A 786 (2020) 139420.
6. T.B Xie, Z.P. Xiong*, Z. Liu, G.Y. Deng, X.W. Cheng, Excellent combination of compressive strength and ductility of (CoCrFeNi)x(Co0.26Cr0.07Fe0.16Ni0.31Hf0.4) high-entropy alloys, Materials & Design 202 (2021) 109569.
7. T.B Xie, Z.P. Xiong*, Z.Q. Xu, Z. Liu, X.W. Cheng**, Another eutectic point of Co-Cr-Fe-Ni-M (Hf, Ta, Nb) high-entropy system determined using a simple mixture method correlated with mixing enthalpy, Materials Science and Engineering A 802 (2021) 140634.
8. D.Z. Yang, Z.P. Xiong*, The dependence of fracture resistance on the size and distribution of blocky retained austenite-martensite constituents, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51 (2020) 2072-2083.
9. C. Jia, Z.P. Xiong*, G.Y. Mu, Z.F. Cheng, Y.W. Wang, X.W. Cheng, Simultaneously improved strength and toughness of hot-rolled brick-and-mortar TiNi/Ti2Ni intermetallic composite, Materials Science and Engineering A 815 (2021) 141302.
10. D.Z. Yang, Z.P. Xiong*, C. Zhang, G.Z. Feng, Z.F. Cheng, X.W. Cheng. Evolution of microstructures and mechanical properties with tempering temperature of a pearlitic quenched and tempered steel, Journal of Iron and Steel Research International, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42243-021-00677-0.