RSS FeedDr. Sulin Zhang joins ESM Department
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Posted by: sxc1
on Aug 8, 2007
Dr. Sulin Zhang joins Engineering Science and Mechanics as Assistant Professor fall semester 2007. Dr. Zhang was awarded a masters degree in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in China and a doctoral degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Northwestern University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biologically Inspired Materials Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas.
His current research activities include multiscale coarse-grained modeling of DNA-carbon nanotube interactions, multiscale modeling of nanoparticle-cell interactions, coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of lipid and lipid bilayers, multiscale modeling of tribological properties of nano-scale contacts, multiscale modeling of cell adhesion, cell-carbon nanotube interactions, eneregetics and kinetics of defects in carbon nanotubes, and mechanical properties of carbon nanotube bundles, networks and composites.
Dr. Zhang is the recipient of a 2007 NSF Career Award, the 2006 Oak Ridge Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, and a 2004 NSF Summer Institute Fellowship.
His current research activities include multiscale coarse-grained modeling of DNA-carbon nanotube interactions, multiscale modeling of nanoparticle-cell interactions, coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of lipid and lipid bilayers, multiscale modeling of tribological properties of nano-scale contacts, multiscale modeling of cell adhesion, cell-carbon nanotube interactions, eneregetics and kinetics of defects in carbon nanotubes, and mechanical properties of carbon nanotube bundles, networks and composites.
Dr. Zhang is the recipient of a 2007 NSF Career Award, the 2006 Oak Ridge Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, and a 2004 NSF Summer Institute Fellowship.