Dr. Mingming Tong is a full time Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the College of Science and Engineering of University of Galway. Following a B.Sc in Physics from the Beijing Institute of Technology (1998), Dr. Tong was awarded the degree of D. Phil. (Materials Engineering) from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004 for his research on computational modelling for the solid state phase transformation of steels. Between 2004 and 2016, he took two separate periods of employment at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of University College Dublin, where he worked as research staff conducting and coordinating extensive research activities as well as taking teaching duties in the field of materials processing and thermodynamics. From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Tong worked in the froth flotation research group at the Department of Earth Science and Engineering of Imperial College London, conducting research activities in the fields of foams and bubbles. In late 2016, he started working at NUI Galway as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering.

The fundamental background of Dr. Tong is in the field of computational modelling of material processing with major interests in fluid flow and heat transfer, microstructure, and mechanical responses. He has extensive experience with research on: multi-phase flow and heat transfer, metallurgical processes (such as phase transformation, recrystallization and grain growth), metal forming, welding, casting, atomisation, melt conditioning and materials recycling, foaming and froth flotation, and high performance computation. Besides the conventional topics of materials engineering and process engineering, Dr. Tong is currently exploring some new topics of research such as single use technology and advanced manufacturing (such as additive manufacturing), sustainable manufacturing (such as material recycling and biodegradable materials), microfluidics and environment rehabilitation.

Fluid Mechanics, CFD, Materials Processing, Computer Modelling, Metallurgy, Advance Manufacturing, Material Recycling and Recovery