Huajian Gao: Difference between revisions

{{shortShort description|Chinese-AmericanChinese–American mechanician (born 1963)}}

| prizes =* Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics] from [[International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences/engineering-and-technology/the-rodney-hill-prize-in-solid-mechanics-professor-huajian-gao |title=The Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics - Professor Huajian Gao &#124; Elsevier |access-date=2013-11-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104082232/http://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences/engineering-and-technology/the-rodney-hill-prize-in-solid-mechanics-professor-huajian-gao |archive-date=2013-11-04 }}</ref>

He received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from [[Xi'an Jiaotong University]] of [[China]] in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in [[Engineering Science]] from [[Harvard University]] in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He taught at [[Stanford University]] between 1988 and 2002, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with [[tenure]] in 1994 and to full Professor in 2000. He joined the [[Max Planck Society]] in 2001 as a Director at the [[Max Planck Institute for Metals Research]] in [[Stuttgart]], Germany. In 2006 he moved to [[Brown University]] as the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering. In 2019, he joined Nanyang Technological University [[Nanyang Technological University]] as 2019 Distinguished University Professors,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Faculty Appointed to Named Professorships|url=https://www.ntu.edu.sg/AboutNTU/organisation/Pages/Faculty%20Appointed%20to%20Named%20Professorships.aspx|access-date=2021-03-20|website=www.ntu.edu.sg}}</ref> also jointly affiliated as scientific director of Institute of High Performance Computing, [[Agency for Science, Technology and Research|A*STAR]], Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web|title=IHPC|url=https://www.a-star.edu.sg/ihpc|access-date=2021-03-20|website=18. Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC)}}</ref> Gao is the editor of the ''Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids/editorial-board/|title=Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids Editorial Board|website=Journals.elsevier.com|access-date=19 August 2017}}</ref> In January of 2024 it was announced that Huajian Gao would be joining [[Tsinghua University]] in a full time chair professor position.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prize-winning US physicist Gao Huajian returns to China after decades overseas|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3248720/prize-winning-us-physicist-gao-huajian-returns-china-after-decades-overseas}}</ref>

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