Ding-Bang Xiong is working in the State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites, in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China since 2012. He received Ph.D. degree in material physics and chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics in 2007. Between 2007–2010, he carried out his postdoctoral research as Alexander von Humboldt fellow in Marburg University, Germany, and between 2010–2012, he did collaboration research in Kyoto University supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His current research focuses on fabrication and properties of metal matrix composite materials.