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| citizenship = U.S.
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| ethnicity = [[Chinese-American]]
| field = [[Solid Mechanics]], [[Mechanical Engineering]], [[Materials Science]]
| work_institutions = {{unbulleted list|[[Brown University]], |[[Max Planck Institute for Metals Research]], |[[Stanford University]], |[[Nanyang Technological University]], [[|Institute of High Performance Computing]]}}
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Xi'an Jiaotong University]], [[Harvard University]]}}
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| known_for = Micro- and nanomechanics of [[thin films]], hierarchically structured materials, and cell-nanomaterials interactions.
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'''Huajian Gao''' ({{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.
 
==Education and career==
Huajian Gao was born in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]] on December 7, 1963.<ref>{{cite news|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> 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>
Gao was born in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]] on December 7, 1963.<ref>{{cite news|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>
Huajian Gao 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 [https://www.ntu.edu.sg/AboutNTU/organisation/Pages/Faculty%20Appointed%20to%20Named%20Professorships.aspx], also jointly affiliated as scientific director of Institute of High Performance Computing, [[Agency for Science, Technology and Research|A*STAR]], Singapore [https://www.a-star.edu.sg/ihpc]. 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>
 
==Research==