Sex:	Male
Birth Date:	Aug. 31, 1929
Birth Place:	Shanghai

Hu Zhuangqi graduated from the Chemistry Department of Hujiang University in Shanghai in 1952. As an expert in metal materials, Hu has studied high-temperature and non-imbalance alloys. His work has won him more than ten Class II and Class II prizes and his study on engine support perforated air cooling casting turbine blades led to his receiving the Class I National Scientific Progress prize.

In his adult career, Hu has served as chief for the Metal Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the High-Temperature Alloy and Special Casting Research Office, and Fast Solidification and Non-Balanced Alloy National Key Lab. A professor at more than ten universities, including Northeast University and Harbin Industrial University.

Major Achievements

Hu Zhuangqi has won many awards. For instance, the "development of a cast nickel-base superalloy air cooled blades for jet engine" won the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award (first prize); the "development of microcrystalline metal powders by ultrasonic atomization" won the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award (second prize); the "formation, microstructure and properties of nanostructured materials," the National Award of Natural Sciences (third prize); the new cast nickel-base superalloy and the hot corrosion resistant directionally solidified nickel-base superalloy," the CAS Award of Scientific and Technological Progress (second prizes); the "development of Al-Li-1 alloy," and the "crystal growth of high Tc superconductor fiber by laser floating zone melting technique," the CAS Award of Scientific and Technological Progress (third prizes); and the "nonequilibrium solidification behavior of single crystal nickel-base superalloy," the Scientific and Technological Progress Award (third prize) by the Ministry of Education. He has applied the constrained directional solidification and rapid solidification to the study of directionally solidified eutectic, single crystal intermetallic, high Tc superconductor as well as metastable materials.

Hu has published 352 papers on foreign journals and 10 books and teaching materials. He has got 14 patents, and served as tutor for 78 doctors and 22 graduate students for master's degrees, as well as 16 postdoctors. Two of his students' doctor dissertations got the national awards in 1999 and 2001, respectively.