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| name = Huajian Gao

| native_name = 高华健

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|12|07}}

| birth_place = [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]], [[China]]

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| citizenship = U.S.

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|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=ArchivedThe copyRodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics - Professor Huajian Gao &#124; Elsevier |accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-03 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurlarchive-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 |archivedatearchive-date=2013-11-04 |df= }}</ref>

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'''Huajian Gao''' {{postnominals|FRS}} ({{zh|s=高华健|p=Gāo Huájiàn}}, born December 7, 1963) is a [[Chinese-American]] [[mechanician]] who is widely known for his contributions to the field of [[solid mechanics]], particularly on the [[Micromechanics|micro]]- and [[nanomechanics]] of [[thin film]]s, hierarchically structured materials, and cell-nanomaterials[[Nanomaterials|nanomaterial]] interactions. He is a Distinguished University Professor at [[Nanyang Technological University]] in [[Singapore]] and Walter H. Annenberg Professor Emeritus of Engineering at [[Brown University]]. He is the editor-in-chief of [[Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids]].

Huajian Gao was born in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]] on December 7, 1963.<ref>{{cite news|author= |url=http://www.casad.ac.cn/aca/315/wjysmd-201512-t20151224_4502747.html |script-title=zh:高华健（Huajian Gao） |newspaper=casad.ac.cn |date=2015 |language=zh}}</ref>

Professor Gao has a background in [[applied mechanics]] and [[engineering science]]. His research interests span over [[Solid Mechanics]], [[Nanomechanics]] and [[Biomechanics]]. He works on mechanics of thin films and hierarchically structured materials, mechanics of biological and bio-inspired materials, mechanics of nanostructured and nanotwinned materials, mechanics of cell adhesion, mechanics of cell-nanomaterials interactions, mechanics of energy storage systems, and mechanics of metallic glasses.

Professor Gao is the recipient of numerousreceived academic honors, fromincluding a John Simon [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 1995 to recent honors includingand the [[Humboldt Prize]] from Germany and Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics from the [[International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics]] (IUTAM) in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences/engineering-and-technology/the-rodney-hill-prize-in-solid-mechanics-professor-huajian-gao |title=ArchivedThe copyRodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics - Professor Huajian Gao &#124; Elsevier |accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-03 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurlarchive-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 |archivedatearchive-date=2013-11-04 |df= }}</ref> He was elected to the [[National Academy of Engineering]] in 2012, to the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] (as a foreign academician) in 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cas.cn/tz/201512/t20151207_4488383.shtml|title=关于公布2015年中国科学院院士增选当选院士名单的公告|website=Cas.cn|accessdateaccess-date=19 August 2017}}</ref> the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]] in 2017,<ref>{{cite andweb |title= Huajian Gao |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/huajian-gao/|publisher=German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |access-date=26 May 2021}}</ref> the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 2018 and [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2019.