Prof. Dr. Huiling Duan

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsMechanics,Mathematics in mechanics of deformable solids
Keywordsfunctional surface microstructures, multiscale modeling, micromechanical mechanics, homogenization, interface mechanics
Honours and awards

2023: Humboldt Research Award

2023: Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2023: National Innovation Award

2020: Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

2020: “Micromechanics of composites with interface effects”, the Second Prize of National Award for Natural Sciences

2017: Ten Best Supervisors Award for graduate students of Peking University

2016: ASME The Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award, USA

2015: “Micromechanics of composites with interface effects”, the first prize of Chinese Ministry of Education

2015: National Outstanding Young Scholar Award of China

2015: Science & Technology Innovation Leader Award, Science and Technology Ministry of China

2014: Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education of China

2014: National Outstanding Young Female Scientist Award

2012: National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2011: Science and Technology Award for Young Investigators, awarded by the The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

2010: Mao Yisheng Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Beijing, China

2009: The Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award (ASME), USA

2007: National Excellent PhD Thesis of China

2007: The first prize of Excellent PhD Thesis of Peking University

2006: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany

2005: Post-doctoral Fellowship of The Royal Society of London, UK

Current contact address

CountryPeople's Republic of China
CityBeijing
InstitutionPeking University (PKU)
InstituteCollege of Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jörg WeißmüllerInstitut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg SchröderInstitut für Mechanik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2007

Programme(s)

2006Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2023Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Huiling Duan is an internationally recognized scientist with wide-ranging research in the field of computational mechanics and multiscale modelling. With her strong aim to combine theoretical and application-oriented research, she serves as a specialized consultant in the composite materials industry and provides valuable support in the development of computer mechanics software for advanced materials research and industry improvement. Eventually, Professor Duan represents one of the driving forces in the field of mechanics of composites and multiphysics as well as multiscale modelling and advanced processing such as 3D printing. To date, she has received 22 patents.

Publications (partial selection)

2008Huiling Duan, Joerg, Weissmuller, and Yan, Wang: Instabilities of core-shell heterostructured cylinders due to diffusions and epitaxy: spheroidization and blossom of nanowires. In: Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids , 2008, 1831-1851
2007Xin Yi, Huiling Duan, etc: Prediction of the complex dielectric constant of polymer-clay nanocomposites. In: Physics Letters A , 2007, 68-71