Nanshu Lu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: nanshulu@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-4208
Office: EER 7.614B (map)
Education:
| Aug. 2006 – Aug. 2009 | Ph.D. in Mechanics of Materials, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A |
| Aug. 2005 – June 2006 | Master of Science in Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. |
| Aug. 2001 – July 2005 | Bachelor of Engineering in Solid Mechanics, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China |
Teaching Experience:
| Fall 2011 | Instructor for EM 319 Mechanics of Solids, UT Austin |
| Fall 2006 & Fall 2007 | Teaching Assistant for ES240 Solid Mechanics, Harvard SEAS |
Honors and Awards:
- Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Beckman Institute, UIUC (2009 – present)
- Traveling Award, NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference (2009)
- Fellowship, NSF-GEM4 Summer School on Cellular And Molecular Mechanics (2009)
- Fellowship, NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials and Micro/Nano-manufacturing (2009)
- Winston Chen Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University (2005, 2006)
- Excellent Graduate of Beijing (2005)
- Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate (2005)
- Tsinghua Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship (2002 – 2003, 2003 – 2004)
- Tsinghua Excellent Academic Performance Scholarship (2001 – 2002)
Synergistic Activities:
- Session chair, Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, MA, December 2008
- Member of Materials Research Society since 2007
- Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineering since 2007
- Moderator of www.imechanica.org (web of mechanics) since 2006
- Peer reviewer for International Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Scripta Materialia, Thin Solid Films, Composites Science and Technology, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, etc.
