Principal Investigator
English/中文版
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Ning An, Ph.D., Associate Professor
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University
Email: anning@scu.edu.cn
Education
2014/09-2020/06 M.S. – Ph.D., School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University – Supervisor: Prof. Jinxiong Zhou
2017/09-2019/09 Visiting Ph.D., School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University – Supervisor: Prof. Katia Bertoldi
2010/09-2014/07 B.S., School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Experience
2021/09-present Associate Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University
2020/07-2021/08 Engineer, Shanghai Ok Space Co Ltd
Honors and Awards
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2022
International Association of Advanced Materials IAAM Young Scientist Medal, 2022
Membership and Editorship
Youth Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials (2024~)
Guest Editor, Polymers (2023~)
AIAA Young Professional Member (2022-present)
Biographical Information
Dr. Ning An joined in School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University as an associate professor in 2021. Before that, he received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering supervised by Prof. Jinxiong Zhou from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014 and 2020, respectively. During his pursuit of his Ph.D., from 2017-2019, he studied as a visiting scholar in the Bertoldi Group at Harvard University, USA. His research fields are structural analysis and design based on computational mechanics with expertise in the finite element method. In recent years, he has focused on the design and analysis of composite deployable structures as well as soft mechanical metamaterials for aerospace applications.