Daining Fang, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Academician of the US National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an expert in the field of materials and structural mechanics. Currently serving as the President of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), Councilor of the International Council for Science's International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, and Honorary Dean and Chief Scientist of the Advanced Structural Technology Research Institute at Beijing Institute of Technology. Previously served as the President of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (~November 2023), Director of the Mechanics Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education (~December 2022), Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology (~November 2018), etc.

Mainly engaged in the research of theoretical, computational, and experimental methods for advanced materials and structural mechanics. Extended the macroscopic and microscopic deformation and fracture theories of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic materials, which have been applied in finite element analysis and device design. Developed multi-field, multi-scale computational mechanics methods and design and preparation methods for advanced materials and structures. The research results have been applied in high-end equipment structures such as the lattice main load-bearing structure of the world's first additively manufactured satellite and the domestic first main load-bearing heterogeneous composite floating frame structure for rail transit equipment. Developed multi-field, multi-axis loading, testing techniques, and experimental methods for advanced materials, broke through a series of material property testing techniques under thermal/mechanical/oxygen-coupled environments, and independently developed a series of ultra-high-temperature testing instruments, filling the domestic gap. It has become one of the main platforms for aerospace ultra-high-temperature mechanical property testing in China, supporting the development of major national defense equipment such as aerospace re-entry capsules and key model aircraft.

1982: Graduated from Nanjing Tech University.
1986: Obtained a Master's degree from Nanjing Tech University.
1993: Obtained a Doctoral degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
1993 - 1994: Conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Mechanics and Materials Structures at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

1994 - 1995: Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, USA.
1995 - 2009: Served successively as Associate Professor and Professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University.
2009 - 2015: Served successively as Chair Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Engineering, Peking University.
2013: Elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2015 - present: Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology and Director of the Academic Committee of the University (until December 2022).
2015 - November 2018: Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology.
2022: Elected as a Foreign Academician of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Won 2 Second Prizes of the National Natural Science Award, 3 First Prizes of the "Natural Science Award of Higher Education Institutions" of the Ministry of Education, 2 First Prizes of the Technological Invention Award, as well as the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, the Zhou Peiyuan Mechanics Award, the First Prize of the Xu Zhilun Mechanics Award, and the highest gold medal of the International Congress on Computational Methods, etc. Has published 6 academic monographs in Chinese and English, and published more than 600 academic papers in top domestic and international journals. Has been rated as an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Scholar for ten consecutive years.