Director
Centre for Advanced Materials Joining
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo
Waterloo
Ontario
N2L 3G1
Canada
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+1 (519) 888-4567
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Background
Dr. Y. Norman Zhou, currently a holder of Canada Research Chair, is also Professor
and Director of the Centre
for Advanced Materials Joining, University of Waterloo. He has more than
25 years industrial, teaching and research experience in advanced materials
joining, including microjoining and nanojoining. In the area of nanojoining
and, more generally, nanofabrication, his research covers brazing of CNTs, low
temperature bonding using Ag nanoparticles, and femtosecond laser welding of
Au nanoparticles, and hydrothermal fabrication of nanomaterials such as BN,
TiO2, ZnO nanotubes and nanowires for applications of sensing, energy storage,
water treatment, etc. Some of the progress in this area has been published in
Carbon, Diamond Relat. Mater., etc
Dr. Zhou received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. from the Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Ph.D. from the Department
of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
He worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua
University and as a Materials Scientist at the Fuel Development Branch, Atomic
Energy of Canada, Ltd, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. He also worked as a Senior
Research Engineer at the Microjoining and Plastics Group at the Edison Welding
Institute, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Dr. Zhou is currently leading a group about 25 graduate students, post-doctoral
fellows and other researchers, working on various materials joining technologies
(from laser and resistance welding, to ultrasonic welding, electromagnetic joining,
soldering and brazing). His research is funded by funding agencies and industrial
companies from all over the world. He is a member of the Board of Review for
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A & B, and a principal reviewer
for the Welding Journal. He has authored or co-authored over 120 journal papers
and several books, including Microjoining and Nanojoining (the first comprehensive
book in the field).