Principal Investigator

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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.