Jian Lu

Prof. Jian LU is Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. President of the Hong Kong Materials Research Society (HKMRS) and former president of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (HKSTAM) Professor LU’s primary research interest is advanced nanomaterials and its integration in mechanical and biomedical systems using the combination of experimental mechanics and mechanical simulation. He has also branched out into several other areas of interest including multiaxial fatigue, residual stresses, surface science and engineering, biomechanics, and nanomechanics. He has published more than 450 SCI journal papers including papers in Nature (cover story), Science, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Materials Today, Advanced Materials, PRL, Acta Materialia, and Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. His research work is cited more 35000 times. He received the French Knight of the National Order of Merit and French Knight of the National Order of Légion d’Honneur in 2006 & 2017 respectively. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2011. He received the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award from the Chinese National Academy of Engineering in 2018. He was also elected as a Fellow of the Hong Kong of Engineering Sciences and of the Hong Kong Institute of Science in 2013.