Prof. WANG Qingyuan is a full Professor of Sichuan University since 2001. He was the president of Chengdu University between 2014 and 2024. He received his PhD in 1998 from Ecole Centrale Paris (University Paris-Saclay), France. His research activity is focused on Materials, Mechanics and Engineering structures, Super Long Life Durability and Low carbon technologies. He has published over 300 papers in SCI index journals, including Nature, Nature Commu, Prog Mater Sci, Adv Mater, Adv Func Mater, Adv Science, Acta Mater, IJ Fatigue, etc. He was named on the list of Chinese Most Cited Researchers (Elsevier) from 2014 to 2023.

He has chaired or co-chaired a number of international or national conferences, including the 6th International Conference on Very High Cycle Fatigue (VHCF-6, 2014), 2021+1 Chinese Congress on Mechanics, and The 55th of Advanced Materials Congress (2023, Sweden), 22th National Conference of Fatigue＆Fracture (2024, Chengdu) etc. He has received a number of awards, including The Second Prize of National Natural Science Award (PI, China, 2018), The First Prize of Sci & Tech Progress (PI, The Chinese Society of Mechanics, 2021), The First Prize of Sichuan Science and Technology Award (PI, Sichuan Province,2014, 2019), European Advanced Materials Award of the Year 2022(IAAM), Outstanding Paper Award of 2013-2023 (Materials Research Letters), Senior Career Award of 2024 ( Inter J Structural Integrity). He is an Effective Fellow candidate of Chinese Academy of Engineering (2019), Fellow of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2023) and Fellow of European Academy of Sciences (2024).