Guocai Chai is currently the group expert at Alleima group and adjunct professor in Engineering Materials at Linköping University, Sweden. His research areas are material design and development, microstructure and properties. He is the board member of the Swedish Royal Mechanics Society, the board member of Swedish Society for Materials and Technology, the management committee member of the European creep collaboration committee, ECCC. He was an EU expert for the Horizon 2020/RFCS program and the invited international independent expert for project reviewing for 7 countries and organizations.

He graduated at University of Science and Technology, Beijing; got PhD at Stockholm University, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Windsor. Then he worked as a researcher at Studsvik Material AB (nuclear materials) before he joint Sandvik in 1997 and had been as the global group expert until the company changed its name.

He has published more than 200 papers, two books and three chapters/overviews in three books, and delivered more than 60 plenary, keynote and invited lectures at different international conferences. He received the Howard F. Taylor Award of the American Foundryman’s Society in 1992 and was the nominees for the “Kami Prize” between 2012-2015, and the Wilhelm Haglund Medal 2016 and 2019. Several advanced materials such as Sanicro 25, Hyper duplex stainless steels, Highflex, HEA Ni based alloys and other Sandvik grades for the energy industries have been developed. Many patents have been granted. He was the conference organizer for several international conferences.