Wangzhong Mu

About me

Wangzhong Mu is currently an Associate Professor at Engineering Materials Subject, TVM, LTU. He received both Docent (Assoc. Prof./Reader) qualification (2022) and PhD degree (2015) at KTH Royal institute of Technology, Sweden. Besides, He has worked in McMaster University (Canada), Tohoku University (Japan), and Ferritico AB (Sweden). He has close collaboration with KTH (strategic partnership), Max Planck Institute of Sustainable Materials (Duesseldorf, Germany), Hanyang University (Korea), Montan University Leoben (Austria), etc. His research interest includes (i) particle behaviours in metals, (ii) sustainable metallurgy, (iii) artificial intelligence (AI) -based material design, etc.

Selected of his current research grant can be seen as follow:

• WISE Industrail PhD AI for Sustainalbe Steel
• VINNOVA Green Steel for a Fossil-free Future
• SSF Strategic Mobility with ABB
• EIT-Raw Materials Project ENDUREIT
• Tillväxtverket Fossil-free Steel
• STINT international collaboration between Sweden and India, Korea, etc.

Current PhD students and Postdoc fellows:

• Guang Wang (Postdoc, LTU, main-supervisor)
• Sanmugavel S. (Postdoc, LTU, main-supervisor)
• Rahman Faiz Suwandana (PhD student, LTU, main-supervisor)
• Lovisa Åkesson (Industrai PhD student, LTU & Ferritico, main-supervisor)
• Chen Cai (PhD student, KTH, co-supervisor)

Alumni of former team members

• Qing Zhu (visiting PhD student at LTU, 2025, now PhD student at NEU)
• Yi Wang (visiting PhD student at LTU, 2024-2025, now PhD at SHU)
• Bansode Krushna Dattatray (visiting PhD student at LTU, 2024, now PhD candidate at IIT-Bombay)
• Gonghao Lian (formerly visiting PhD student at KTH 2024, now PhD candidate at NEU)
  

Current lectures

• T7030T Materials Design (course responsible)
• T7004T Sureface Engineering (course responsible)
• T0007T Materials Selection and Ecodesign (course responsible)
• T0029T Materials Processing (teacher)
• T7009T Project of Materials Science & Engineering (supervisor)
• Open to the climate: Production of fossil-free steel I (teacher)
• Open to the climate: Production of fossil-free steel II (teacher)

Beside, I use to be teacher for T7001T, T0003T, etc at LTU and MH2000, MH3903, MH2450, MH2504, MH2048, etc. at KTH.

Please contact wangzhong.mu@ltu.se or wangzhongmu6699@gmail.com if you have request for PhD/visiting study, postdoc fellowship application and student course project.