Radiation effect in metals and alloys;

Design of novel radiation tolerant materials;

Mechanical behavior of metals in gaseous environment;

Interface metallic materials;

Dynamic loading of materials;

Fatigue and fracture of materials.

2014.01 CAMP-Nano, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shannxi, China, Professor;

2010-2013 Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, Research Fellow.

2008-2010 ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals, Materials Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Research Fellow.

2003–2008 Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Ph.D.

1999-2003 Department of Physics, Shanxi Normal University, Linfeng, Shanxi, China, B.S.

Young Talent Support Plan of XJTU, 2015;

Youth Thousand Talents Plan of China, 2015;

Best paper award, ARC Center of Excellence for Design in Light Metals, 2011;

Dean award of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009;

First Class Shi Changxu Fellowship, Institute of Metal Research, 2009.

Han WZ, Huang L, Ogata S, Kimizuka H, Yang ZC, Weinberger C, Li QJ, Liu BY, Zhang XY, Li J, Ma E, Shan ZW. From "smaller is stronger" to "size-independent strength plateau": towards measuring the ideal strength of iron. Advanced Materials (2015) 27 (2015) 3385-3390.

Han WZ, Cerreta EK, Mara NA, Beyerlein IJ, Carpenter JS, Zheng SJ, Trujillo CP, Dickerson PO, Misra A. Deformation and Failure of shocked Cu-Nb nanolaminates. Acta Materialia 63 (2014) 150-161.

Han WZ Demkowicz MJ, Mara NA, Fu EG, Sinha S, Rollett AD, Wang YQ, Carpenter JS, Beyerlein IJ, Misra A. Design of irradiation tolerant materials via interface engineering. Advanced Materials 25 (2013) 6975-6979.

Han WZ, Demkowicz MJ, Fu EG, Wang YQ, Misra A. Effect of grain boundary characters on sink efficiency. Acta Materialia 60 (2012) 6341-6351.

Han WZ, An Q, Luo SN, Germann TC, Tonks DL, Goddard III WA. Deformation and spallation of shocked Cu bicrystals with sigma 3 coherent and symmetric incoherent grain boundaries. Physical Review B 85 (2012) 024107.

Han WZ, Carpenter JS, Wang J, Beyerlein IJ, Mara NA. Atomic-level study of twin nucleation from fcc/bcc interfaces in nanolamellar composites. Applied Physics Letters 100 (2012) 011911. (also see Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technololy, Jan 23, 2012) .

Han WZ, Vinogradov A, Hutchinson CR. On the reversibility of dislocation slip during cyclic deformation of Al alloys containing shear-resistant particles. Acta Materialia 59 (2011) 3720-3736.