Huajian Gao#
| Membership Number: | 4691 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.brown.edu/research/projects/nanomechanics-engineering-biological-systems |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - Xinghua University Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- 2019 - 2024 Distinguished University Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2006 - 2019 Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering, Brown University, USA
- 2002 - 2006 Honorary Professor, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2000 - 2006 Director, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany
- 1988 - 2002 Professor (2000-2002), Associate Professor (1995-2000), Assistant Professor (1988-1994), Stanford University, USA
- 1982 - 1983 Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Nanomechanics
- Solid mechanics
- Biomechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Elected Fellow of Royal Society
- 2023 ASME Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2023 ICF George Irwin Gold Medal, The International Congress on Fracture
- 2022 Inaugural Michael P. Païdoussis Medal, Royal Society of Canada
- 2022 Zdenek P. Bazant Medal, Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2022 William D. Nix Award, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society
- 2021 Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2019 Elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea* 2018 Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2017 Theodore von Karman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers (highest award in engng. mechanics from this society)
- 2017 Elected Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture
- 2015 Elected Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Nadai Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2015 Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Sciences
- 2012 Elected Member of the US National Academy of Engineering
- 2012 Rodney Hill Prize, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM)
- 2012 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (highest German award for international scientists)
- 2011 Richards Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2009 Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University
- 2009 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2005 Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbands für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Max Planck Society, Germany, 2005
- 2005 Young Investigator Medal, Society of Engineering Sciences
- 2004 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK)
- 2004 Melville Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2003 Elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1999 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigators Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation (one award each year for engineering in USA and Canada)
