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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• ASME
• MRS

• 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.