====== The Zhang Research Group ======
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**Sulin Zhang**\\ Assistant Professor\\ 411D EES Bldg\\ Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics\\ The Pennsylvania State University\\ University Park, PA 16802

email: [[suz10@psu.edu]]\\ Tel: 1-814-865-7640\\ Fax: 1-814-865-9974

===== Education =====
  * 2002	Ph.D.	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)\\
  * 1997	M.S.	Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China\\
  * 1994	B.S.	Engineering Mechanics (Major)\\ Computer Science (Minor)\\ Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

===== Awards and Honors =====
  * 2007, NSF Early CAREER Development Award
  * 2007, NSF International Travel Fellowship
  * 2007, NSF Fellowship for “Biomechanics” workshop
  * 2006, The Oak Ridge Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
  * 2006, NSF Summer Institute Fellowship
  * 2002, The Arthur Newell Talbot Graduate Award, UIUC, 2002


===== Research Interests =====
  * Mechanics of nanostructured materials
  * Mechanics of small-scale contacts
  * Mechanics of nano-bio interfaces
  * Cellular Mechanics, biomechanics
  * Multiscale methods across different length and time scales

===== Professional Associations =====
  * ASME
  * MRS

===== Professional Activities =====
   * Journal Reviewer
    * Physical Review Letters
    * Nano Letters 
    * Nanotechnology
    * Acta Materialia 
    * Materials Science and Engineering
    * International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
    * New Journal of Physics 
    * Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
    * Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
    * Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
    * Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

  * Proposal Reviewer
    * NSF review panelist for the Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) program, 2007.
    * NSF review panelist for Nano-bio program, 2006.

  * Symposium organizer and Session Chair
    * Session Chair for the 2nd International Conference on Multiscale Modeling of Materials (MMM-II), Los Angeles, 2004
    * Session chair for the 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM), Los Angeles, 2006
    * Symposium organizer for the 9th National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, 2007. 
    * Member of the Technical Program Committee for the ASME-Computational Mechanics conference, Seattle, Washington, 2007
    * Symposium organizer for ASME winter meeting in Seattle, Washington, 2007.