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Dr Richard (Yu) Jiang

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Jiang (ORCID) is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on an Innovate UK-funded project following completing his PhD here as a Cambridge Trust Scholar. Dr Jiang is dedicated to sustainable cementitious materials and additive manufacturing for construction applications. During his PhD at the IfM, Dr Jiang works across the groups of Prof Ronan Daly and Prof Abir Al-Tabbaa. His PhD advisor is Prof Bill O’Neill. He joined the Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing (FIAM) group at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) in 2020.  Dr Jiang defined an improved quality assurance parameter, PQAT, to better regulate the print quality of 3D-printed cementitious materials. Through better harnessing the time-dependent rheological properties and apprehension of multiple scales of structural design for 3D printing, he based the PQAT on the mesostructures of 3D-printed structures. His publications have received >300 citations to date (Google Scholar). He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Testing and Evaluation, an ASTM flagship journal, a peer reviewer for many reputable journals and conferences, and a frequent speaker at multiple international conferences. 

 

Since joining Cambridge, he has been recognised by many awards, including the winner of the IET International Travel Award, the British Society of Rheology Student Travel grant, finalist in the Student Presentation Competition at the International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing 2023, 1st Prize in Best Poster Competition at the IfM PhD Conference 2021, and ASTM International Emerging Professional (ASTM EP).

 

As a young professional with active industry engagement, he was selected into many professional organisations and committees. He serves under American Society for Testing and Material (ASTM) Committee C01 for Cement, Committee D30 for Composite Materials, Committee F42 for Additive Manufacturing Technologies; British Standards Institution (BSI, UK National Committee) Committee AMT/8 for Additive manufacturing; ISO TC 261 for Additive Manufacturing; American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committee 564 for 3-D Printing with Cementitious Materials; Publicity committee, technical committee, and Invited Speaker at the 9th International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing and Materials (ICAMM 2025) to be held in Oxford, UK. 

 

Areas of expertise

Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)

Viscoelastic, Transient Rheology

Sustainable Cementitious Materials (Cement, Concrete)

Numerical Simulations

 

 

Contact Details

T: +44(0)1223 766141
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