1. Huajian Gao is a Chinese-American mechanician who is widely known for his contributions to the field of solid mechanics, particularly on the micro- and nanomechanics of thin films, hierarchically structured materials, and cell-nanomaterial interactions.
Huajian Gao is a Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Walter H Annenberg Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown University.
Huajian Gao is the editor-in-chief of Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Huajian Gao was born in Chengdu, Sichuan on December 7,1963.
Huajian Gao taught at Stanford University between 1988 and 2002, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1994 and to full Professor in 2000.
Huajian Gao joined the Max Planck Society in 2001 as a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany.
Huajian Gao is the editor of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
In January of 2024 it was announced that Huajian Gao would be joining Tsinghua University in a full time chair professor position.
Huajian Gao has a background in applied mechanics and engineering science.
Huajian Gao received academic honors including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995 and the Humboldt Prize from Germany and Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics from the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2012.
Huajian Gao was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2017, the National Academy of Sciences in 2018 and American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.