NanshuLu

Texas Engineer Nanshu Lu
ProfessorCullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering #4 Frank and Kay Reese Endowed Professorship in Engineering

Research Areas
Research Interests

Mechanics of thin films on compliant substrates; Mechanics of flexible electronics with extreme deformability and compliance; Mechanics at bio-electronics interface; Development of novel bio-integrated soft electronics for cardiac, neural and epidermal applications.

About
Nanshu Lu holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in the fall of 2011. She is also on the graduate study committees (GSC) of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) programs.

She received her B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, Ph.D. from Harvard University, and then a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship at UIUC. Her research concerns the mechanics, materials, manufacture and human/robot integration of soft electronics. She has been named a 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review (TR 35) and an iCANX/ACS Nano Inaugural Rising Star. She has received US NSF CAREER Award, US ONR and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, 3M non-tenured faculty award, and most recently, the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award. She has been selected as one of the five great innovators on campus and five world-changing women at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Her research has been published in high-profile journals including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, etc., and has been highlighted by news media such as Nature News, ScienceNOW, Technology Review, Chemical & Engineering News and more.

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., Mechanics of Materials, Harvard University (2009)
M.S., Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Harvard University (2006)
B.E., Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2005)

Select Awards & Honors

  • Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award – American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) fellow
  • Young Investigator Award – Air Force Research Laboratory (2015)
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2015)
  • CAREER Award – National Science Foundation (2014)
  • 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2014)
  • 35 Innovators Under 35 – MIT Technology Review (2012)

Related Websites
Lu Research Group
Texas Materials Institute

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