Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao (born December 7, 1963 in Chengdu ) is an American mechanical engineer.
Gao studied mechanics at Jiaotong University Xi'an with a bachelor's degree and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1984 and a doctorate in 1988 with James R. Rice . He was then assistant professor, from 1994 associate professor and from 2000 professor at Stanford University . From 2001 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart (and during this time also honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart) and from 2006 professor at Brown University .
He deals with fracture mechanics, mechanics of thin films and hierarchically structured materials, mechanics of nanostructured and nanocrystalline materials (e.g. semiconductors), cell adhesion and the mechanics of the interaction between cells and nanomaterials.
He is editor of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids . Gao is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering . In 1995/96 he was visiting scholar at Cambridge, 1996 in Paderborn and Hong Kong (University of Science and Technology) and he was visiting professor at Tsinghua University, the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, Stanford, Hong Kong University and Jiaotong -Xi'an University.
In 2005 he received the Science Prize: Research Between Fundamentals and Applications and in 2012 the Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and received a Humboldt Research Award in 2012 with which he was at Heidelberg University. In 2017 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldia , in 2018 in the National Academy of Sciences , in 2019 in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He is a US citizen.
Web links
- Member entry by Prof. Dr. Huajian Gao (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- Gao Research Group
Individual evidence
- ↑ American Men and Women of Science , Thomson-Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gao, Huajian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cheng you |