Recently, the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) has officially announced the winners of the "IUMRS Frontier Materials Young Scientists Award" which honors those young scientists who have made significant contributions to materials research and materials education worldwide. Professor PAN Jie from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of HUST was awarded the "IUMRS Frontier Materials Young Scientists Award for the year 2021-2022".

Established in 1991, the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) is an academic organization jointly initiated by regional Materials Research Societies worldwide (the United States, China, Europe, Japan, etc.), each dedicated to fostering and advancing interdisciplinary research and developing education in Materials Science and Engineering. Only six young scientists worldwide receive the award each year. Besides Prof. Pan, scientists from the University of Cambridge, City University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Westlake University also won the award this year.

Professor PAN Jie has made outstanding achievements in the deformation behavior of metallic glasses. Specifically, he has succeeded in strain-hardening metallic glasses by tailoring the energy state of these disordered materials (Nature 2020), solving a problem hitherto thought impossible in this field (reported by Physics world), and has been described as "Scientifically this is very exciting and entirely shakes the current understanding of deformation in the vast material class of glasses"; "It changes the existing understanding of the deformation behavior of glassy materials and it opens up many more paths for exploring the complex relationship between structure and properties in glasses (Nature 2020, Prof. Spaepen form Harvard University)"; "As such this work is exciting and constitutes the first step towards something that may change the field of metallic glasses as the understanding and manipulation of dislocations have changed crystalline metals"; (reviewer's comment); "Strain-hardening in metallic glasses where it was not thought possible ― an 85-year wait (Nature Research Device and Materials Engineering)".

Professor PAN Jie completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at HUST, and received his PhD degree in Engineering. After that, he went to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the National University of Singapore as a post-doctoral fellow from 2012 to 2014. Afterward, he joined the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate professor and then returned to the School of Materials Science and Engineering, HUST, as a professor. Prof. PAN focuses his research on the mechanical properties and deformation mechanism of metallic materials, including metallic glasses, high entropy alloys, and heterogeneous structured materials both experimentally and theoretically. He has published over 40 papers in SCI journals, including Nature, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Acta Materialia，Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and 7 national invention patents have been applied. He was invited to serve as the reviewer of renowned journals like Nature Communications, Acta Materialia. And he won the "Outstanding Young Scientist Award" for amorphous and high entropy alloys for the Chinese Materials Research Society (2018), and China National Funds for Excellent Young Scientists (2020).