The recipient of 2006 Lee Hsun Lecture Series on Materials Science, Prof. Hael Mughbrabi from University Erlangen-Nuernberg Germany visited Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS) from Aug 23-29, 2006.

During his visit, Prof. Mughrabi gave several interesting lectures entitled: (1) Cyclic Deformation and Fatigue of Ultrafine-Grained Metals; (2) Fatigue Mechanisms in the Ultrahigh Cycle Regime and (3) Role of Geometrically Necessary Dislocations in Inducing Long-Range Internal Stresses and Lattice Plane Misorientations in Deformed Crystals. Besides, he visited Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL) and R & D Center of IMR. He also held fruitful discussions with some young researchers and their Ph.D students from several groups working on materials fatigue and fracture. As an old friend of IMR CAS, this is his second time visit, Prof. Mughrabi is highly impressed by young scientists and Ph. D students and their recent work, and hopes IMR keep up the high standard!

Prof. Mughrabi obtained his Ph.D degree from Stuttgart University in 1970, and became a C3 Professorship of Ruhr-University Bochum in 1981, finally accepted a C4 Professorship of Friedrich-Alexander-Universiy Erlangen-Nurnberg in 1982. From 1991-1993 he was elected as Dean of the Engineering Faculty of Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interests mainly focused on cyclic deformation of materials, plasticity and strength theory and high-temperature fatigue and creep of super-alloys. He is a well known scientist on fatigue, creep and strength theory of materials. He has published more than 270 journal papers and edited 7 books, and becomes several international board member of international conference.