Shuai Wei

Shuai Wei received his B.E. degree in electronic science and technologies in the physics department of East China Normal University in Shanghai before moving to Germany to obtain his master degree in materials science and engineering at Saarland University. In September 2014, he received his doctoral degree in materials science and engineering at the Chair of Metallic Materials of Prof. Ralf Busch at Saarland University, Germany. His doctoral work focused on thermodynamics, kinetics and structure of bulk metallic glasses (amorphous metals). In November 2014, he moved to Arizona State University as a Humboldt Feoder-Lynen Postdoctoral Research Fellow hosted by Prof. C. Austen Angell. He studied the kinetic and thermodynamic anomalies in chalcogenide phase-change materials in collaboration with Prof. Pierre Lucas who was a co-host at University of Arizona. After two-year research stay in the USA, he returned to Germany and has joined the group of Prof. Matthias Wuttig at RWTH Aachen University and is working on phase-change materials since November 2016. From August 2020, he takes the position of tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Aarhus University in Denmark.

His research is focused on novel amorphous materials for innovative technologies, including Phase-Change Materials for future non-volatile phase-change memory devices and 3D-printed amorphous metals (bulk metallic glasses) for structural applications.

With synchrotron X-rays/neutron scattering and state-of-the-art thermal analytical techniques, we investigate the atomic-scale structure, thermodynamics, and kinetics of amorphous states of these materials. A better understanding of their properties and a deep insight into their atomic-scale structures are the driving force for technological innovations.