Ma Qian

Dr Ma Qian is a Distinguished Professor at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing in the School of Engineering, RMIT University. He joined RMIT in 2013 from The University of Queensland (UQ). Prior to that, he held various academic and research positions at Portsmouth University (UK), Brunel University (UK), UQ, the National University of Singapore (Singapore), Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan), and Tsinghua University (China).

Awards and honours:

• FAPMI (2025), Fellow of American Powder Metallurgy Institute International (APMI), Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), USA. This prestigious distinction is bestowed upon no more than two individuals annually. 

• Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts (2023). Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) College of Experts (2024) •

• Materials Australia's Lifetime Achievement Award (2022) – the Highest Individual Honour from Materials Australia

Silver Medal (no Gold) – reflecting the tradition of the 1st Olympic Games (Athens, 1896), where winners received Silver Medals instead of Gold.

• FASM (2020), Fellow of American Society for Metals International – ASM International is the World's foremost professional society for materials scientists, engineers and technicians (established in 1913)

• RMIT Distinguished Professor Award (2019)

• RMIT Engineering 2019 Executive Dean's Research Excellence Award – Level E (professorial level)

• American Society for Metals International (ASM) 2006 Henry Howe Marion Medal

• TMS Light Metals 2003 – Magnesium Technology Award

• The inaugural Australian CAST-CRC Industry Partners Award (2003)

• The Australian CAST-CRC Commercialisation Award (2003)

• Four best papaer awards from major conferences/symposia (2003 - 2013)

Selected publications (As of Feb 2025, 322 journal papers with > 30,000 GS citations)

1: T. Song, Z. Chen, X. Cui, S. Lu, H. Chen, H. Wang, T. Dong, B. Qin, K. C. Chan, M. Brandt, X. Liao, S. P. Ringer, M. Qian, "Strong and ductile titanium-oxygen-iron alloys by additive manufacturing", Nature, 2023, 618, 63–68.

2: J. Noronha, J. Dash, J. Rogers, M. Leary, M. Brandt, M. Qian, "Titanium multi-topology metamaterials with exceptional strength", Advanced Materials, 2024, 2308715.

3: Haozhang Zhong, Raj Das, Jianfeng Gu, Ma Qian, "Low-density, high-strength metal mechanical metamaterials beyond the Gibson-Ashby model", Materials Today, 2023, 68, 96-107.

4: Hongmei Liu, Shenglu Lu, Yingbo Zhang, Hui Chen, Yungui Chen, Ma Qian, "Migration of solidification grain boundaries and prediction", Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 5910.

5: C. J. Todaro, M. A. Easton, D. Qiu, D. Zhang, M. J. Bermingham, E. W. Lui, M. Brandt, D. H. StJohn, M. Qian, "Grain structure control during metal 3D printing by high-intensity ultrasound", Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 142.

6: I. Polmear, D. StJohn, J. F. Nie, M. Qian, Light Alloys: Metallurgy of Light Metals (5^th edition), 544 pages, Waltham, Massachusetts, Butterworth–Heinemann (Elsevier), 2017.

7: Ma Qian, F. H. Froes (editors), Titanium Powder Metallurgy: Science, Technology and Applications (ISBN: 978-0-12-800054-0), 648 pages, Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, 2015 (contributed 5 chapters). 

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