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Alfonso Ngan is Kingboard Professor in Materials Engineering and Chair in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1992, and carried out postdoctoral research work at the University of Oxford, before joining HKU in 1993. His research interests include nanomechanics, smart actuating materials, and microstructural basis of material properties. He is an editorial board member for the IOP journal Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. Alireza Kalaei is currently pursuing PhD studies at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, he completed his undergraduate studies at the Sharif University of Technology in 2020 and finished his MPhil studies at the University of Hong Kong in 2022. His research interests include mechanical properties of materials, microstructural basis of strength, and computational materials science. On the topic of continuous dislocation dynamics, he has made important contributions to the development of numerical schemes and simulation codes.
