Qi Shen

Qi Shen was born on July, 1994 in Jiujiang city, China. She enrolled in Wuhan University of Technology majoring in Materials and Science in 2012. In 2016 she received a bachelor’s degree with the honour of Outstanding Graduate in Wuhan University of Technology.

With the exception from the admission examinations, she decided to pursue a master’s degree majoring in Materials Physics and Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Jian Liu, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The master’s project focused on the elastocaloric effect in magnetic Pd-In-Fe shape memory alloys. She received her master’s degree in June 2019.

From August 2019, she continued her interest in energy materials and started her PhD under the supervision of Prof.dr. Ekkes Brück and Dr. Niels van Dijk in the group of Fundamental Aspects of Materials and Energy (FAME) at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She used various experimental techniques such as Neutron diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy to study magnetoelastic transitions in typical giant magnetoelastic materials. The results of this research are presented in this thesis entitled “Tuning Magnetoelastic Transitions in Mn2Sb-based and Fe2Hf-based Magnetocaloric Materials”.

She received her PhD degree in September 2023. Now She sharted her career in Hanghzhou Dianzi University since January 2024. She works in the field of magnetic phase transition materials and solid-state refrigeration.