The recipient of 2011 Lee Hsun Lecture Series—Lee Hsun Research Award, Prof. Levente Vitos from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), visited Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS) from June 13 to 18, 2017.

During the visit, Prof. Levente Vitos delivered a lecture entitled “First principles modeling of high-technology alloys”. He overviewed the pioneering applications of alloy theory in the case of steels and a few representative HEAs, and pointed out the main known and hidden challenges associated with such efforts. He also presented the recent progress in predicting the mechanical properties from first-principles theory for austenitic stainless steels and HEAs composed of 3d metals.

Prof. Levente Vitos is from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He is considered a world-class expert on the application of the LMTO quantum mechanical method and its application in materials systems.

He is the creator of the new EMTO-CPA method, which represents the first useful applications of modern applied quantum mechanics that can be used practically in the industrial world of metallurgy and alloy design to model and create novel materials. He also proposed Materials modeling from first-principles theory which performed the first ab initio quantum mechanical description of steels. The Density functional theory and Kohn-Sham methods he created worked out the Exact Muffin-Tin Orbitals method for alloys, which has made possible to extend, for the first time. He has also established great contacts with international research groups involved in computational quantum-mechanics and has strong collaboration with several R&D departments within different Swedish, Finnish and numerous international companies.

Prof.YANG Rui, the Director of IMR presents the plaque of Lee Hsun Lecture Series to Prof. Levente Vitos.(Image by IMR)

Prof. Levente Vitos delivers a lecture. (Image by IMR)