In August 2012, Dr. Xun-Li Wang joined the City University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science. Prior to assuming the current position, he had been working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US. As a senior scientist in the Neutron Science Directorate, he led innovative research, using neutron scattering as a primary tool, to understand deformation and phase transformation behavior in complex materials. In 2006-2011, Dr. Wang was Group Leader of the Powder Diffraction Group in the formerly Neutron Scattering Science Division, which is responsible for eight instruments at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), two world-leading facilities in neutron science. In 1999 - 2011, Dr. Wang served as lead instrument scientist and project manager for VULCAN, a dedicated engineering diffractometer at the SNS. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, and his early work on welding residual stresses was awarded an A. F. Davis Medal by the American Welding Society. In 2009, he was named a Changjiang Chair Professor (长江讲座教授) by China’s Ministry of Education. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University and B.S. from Peking University, both in Physics.