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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 low-dimension materials
- Mechanics of contacts
- Mechanics of 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.
