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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Mechanics,Mathematics in mechanics of deformable solids |
| Keywords | functional surface microstructures, multiscale modeling, micromechanical mechanics, homogenization, interface mechanics |
| Honours and awards | 2025: Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) 2025: International Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) 2024: The ICCES Wei-zang Chien Award 2023: Humboldt Research Award 2023: Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2023: National Innovation Award 2023: The ICCES Distinguished Fellow 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
| Country | People's Republic of China |
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| City | Beijing |
| Institution | Peking University (PKU) |
| Institute | College of Engineering |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jörg Weißmüller | Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen |
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| Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schröder | Institut für Mechanik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2007 |
Programme(s)
| 2006 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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| 2023 | Humboldt 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)
| 2025 | 1. Chen Ce, Wu Liujun, Xin Chenyang, Liu Wenbin, Yi Xin, Duan Huiling*: A neural-network-enhanced micromechanical framework with evolving reference medium for nonlinear heterogeneous materials. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 207: 106426, 2025, |
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| 2025 | 2. Xiang Yaolei, Huang Shenglin, Zhou Xu, Lv Pengyu, Wang Gang, Huang Tian-Yun, Li Hongyuan, Xue Yahui, Duan Huiling*: A universal criterion for underwater gas bubble stability. In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1024: A13, 2025, |
| 2024 | Wen Zhixuan, Lv Pengyu, Feng Fan*, Duan Huiling*: A generalized geometric mechanics theory for multi-curve-fold origami: vertex constrained universal configurations. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 192: 105829, 2024, |
| 2024 | 4. Liu Xiaochao, You Chenxi, Cao Yanlin, Xu Baorui, Yang Yantao, Li Hongyuan, Lv Pengyu, Sun Chao, Duan Huiling*: Friction drag reduction of Taylor–Couette flow over air-filled microgrooves. In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 999: A63, 2024, |
| 2020 | 6. Huang Tian-Yun, Huang Heng-Wei, Jin Dongdong, Chen Qianying, Huang Jianyong, Zhang Li, Duan Huiling*: Four-dimensional micro-building blocks. In: Science Advances, 6(3): eaav8219, 2020, |
| 2020 | Xiang Yaolei, Huang Shenglin, Huang Tianyun, Dong Ao, Cao Di, Li Hongyuan, Xue Yahui, Lv Pengyu, Duan Huiling*: Superrepellency of underwater hierarchical structures on Salvinia leaf. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(5): 2282-2287, 2020, |
| 2020 | Liu Wenbin, Liu Ying, Cheng Yangyang, Chen Lirong, Yi Xin, Duan Huiling*: Unified model for size-dependent to size-independent transition in yield strength of crystalline metallic materials. In: Physical Review Letters, 124(23): 235501, 2020, |
| 2017 | Xiang Yaolei, Huang Shenglin, Lv Pengyu, Xue Yahui, Su Qiang, Duan Huiling*: Ultimate stable underwater superhydrophobic state. In: Physical Review Letters, 119(13): 134501, 2017, |
| 2014 | Lv Pengyu, Xue Yahui, Shi Yipeng, Lin Hao*, Duan Huiling*: Metastable states and wetting transition of submerged superhydrophobic structures. In: Physical Review Letters, 112(19): 196101, 2014, |
| 2014 | Xue Yahui, Markmann Jurgen, Duan Huiling: Switchable imbibition in nanoporous gold; Nature Communications. In: Nature Communications, 5: 4237, 2014, |