Dr. Minh-Son Pham is a Lecturer (equiv. to Assistant Professor in USA) in the department of Materials. Previously, he was a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University and a Guest Researcher at NIST. He obtained a Doctor of Science degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich with distinction – ETH Medal. His groundbreaking research has been published in Nature, Nature Communications, J. of Mech. and Phys. of Solids, Int. J. of Plasticity, etc. He has delivered > 15 invited lectures at international conferences (Programmable Materials 2020, ICMAT2019, Thermec, TMS etc.)