At the invitation of the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Prof. Niels Hansen, the awardee of Einstein professorship CAS, member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, Prof. D. Juul Jensen, director of the Department of Wind Energy, Risø Campus, Technical University of Denmark, and Prof. Andrew Godfrey from Tsinghua University visited IMR from May 21 to May 24.

During the visit, Prof. Niels Hansen delivered a lecture titled “Plastic Deformation of Metals and Alloys”, and an awarding ceremony was hold before the lecture. The lecture and awarding ceremony was presided over by Prof. YANG Rui, the Deputy Director of IMR. Prof. CHENG Huiming, the Deputy Director of IMR presented the certificate of Einstein professorship CAS to Prof. Neils Hansen. The excellent lecture received a high attention and praise. After the lecture, Prof. Niels Hansen answered the audience’s questions and had an academic discussion with many researchers in relevant fields. Then, Prof. Niels Hansen, prof. D. Juul Jensen and Prof. Andrew Godfrey visited the Ti-alloys Department and Superalloys Department.

Prof. Niels Hansen, Prof. D. Juul Jensen and Prof. Andrew Godfrey have very good cooperative relationship with the researchers of Non-equilibrium Metallic Materials Divisionand Materials Fatigue and Fracture Division for many years. During this visit, they have in-depth discussions about their cooperation, and Prof. D. Juul Jensen delivered a lecture titled “In-situ Measurement of Annealing Kinetics of Individual Bulk Grains in Nanostructured Aluminium”.

In early sixty's, Prof. Niels Hansen had became the head of the former Material Research Department, Risø National Laboratory, and enjoys a great reputation in the field of Materials Science. He has published more than 400 papers, which was cited more than million times, he also have 2 monographs. For a long time, Prof. Hansen is committed to the microstructure evolution research of the metal materials’ plastic deformation, and elucidates the dislocation mechanism during the processes of plastic deformation. His research results promote the understanding for the plastic deformation of metal materials and recovery, also the recrystallization. His research results also lay the foundation for the development of new materials and technology. Because of his outstanding research work, Prof. Hansen has been rated as the foreign associate of US National Academy of Engineering, the foreign honorary member of American Academy of Arts and Science, the member of academia Europaea, and the Honorary member of The Japanese Institute of Metals. In addition, Prof. Hansen had received a number of awards, including the fellow of the institute of materials, United Kingdom, the honorary member of Metallurgical Society of France, Poul Bergsøe Metal of Danish Metallurgical Society, and Robert Franklin Mehl Award of TMS.