Associate Professor Mingyuan Lu serves in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering within the Engineering faculty at the University of Queensland. She obtained her PhD from the University of Queensland in February 2014, a Master of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from Central South University, China in June 2009, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from the same institution in June 2007. Possessing over a decade of research experience, she specializes in material synthesis, mechanics, and characterization techniques including nanoindentation, nanoscratching, atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy, focused ion beam milling, and compositional analysis via Raman spectroscopy, XRD, EDS, DTA, and DSC.

Her research contributions in materials mechanics include pioneering FIB-machined micro-cantilever bending and micro-bridge four-point bending techniques for evaluating fracture and interfacial properties of protective coatings on magnesium alloys and adhesion in bilayer structures, with applications in semiconductor reliability testing funded by WIN Semiconductor Co., Taiwan. In materials processing, she has developed selective laser sintering processes for additive manufacturing of porous biodegradable polymer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, securing UQ philanthropic ECR grant, SEED funding, and SEEM grant for biocompatibility studies. Additional efforts encompass high-performance refractory metals via powder metallurgy and ongoing projects such as laser-deposited titanium oxide coatings for aerospace titanium components, additive manufacturing of ceramics and composites, and micro-scale interfacial adhesion for flexible electronics. Notable publications comprise "Interfacial adhesion of film/substrate system characterised by nanoindentation" (2015, CRC Press), "Fracture strength characterization of protective intermetallic coatings on AZ91E Mg alloys using FIB-machined microcantilever bending technique" (2015, Journal of Materials Research), "Determination of the energy release rate in the interfacial delamination of silicon nitride film on gallium arsenide substrate via nanoindentation" (2014, Journal of Materials Research), and recent articles like "Direct laser deposition of yttria-stabilised zirconia (YSZ) coating on 316L Stainless steel" (2025, Ceramics International) and "Mechanical failure and electrical degradation of conductive films and island arrays on flexible Pt/PET substrate under cyclic bending" (2025, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics). Lu is affiliated with the Centre for Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing.

Professional Email: m.lu1@uq.edu.au