Dr. Shaoxing Qu is Qiushi Distinguished Professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Zhejiang University, China. His main research interests include intelligent soft materials and soft machines, intelligent microrobots, multiscale mechanics and micro-/nano-mechanics, and the mechanics of composite materials. He has published over 250 SCI-indexed journal articles and holds more than 40 Chinese invention patents. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the International Journal of Solids and Structures, International Journal of Fracture, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Research, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Advances in Mechanics, and Robots. Dr. Zhe Chen is Research Fellow at Zhejiang University and has been selected for the Young Talent Support Project of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). His primary research interests focus on soft matter mechanics.
In recent years, he has made a series of advances in mechanochemical coupling modeling of soft materials, 3D printing, and the development and design of soft materials and soft machines. He has published more than 20 journal articles in leading journals such as Science Advances, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and Advanced Functional Materials. Dr. Guoyong Mao is Research Fellow at Zhejiang University and Recipient of a national-level young talent program. His main research interests include soft robotics, soft matter mechanics, and mechanics of flexible structures. He has published more than 30 SCI-indexed journal articles, with representative works appearing in leading international journals such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Soft Matter, International Journal of Solids and Structures, and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. He has contributed one English book chapter and one Chinese review article published by CRC Press. He has filed three invention patents, two of which have been granted.
Dr. Junjie Liu received his Ph.D. in solid mechanics from Zhejiang University in June 2020 and joined the School of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, in July 2020. He received the Nomination Award for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation from the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM) and was selected for the Young Talent Support Project of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) as well as the Sichuan Provincial Young Talent Program. His research focuses on puncture mechanics of soft materials, functional hydrogel coatings, and the fatigue and fracture of adhesion interfaces in soft materials. Dr. Heng Zhu received his Ph.
D. in solid mechanics from Zhejiang University in June 2024 and is currently Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University. His research interests focus on the multiphysics-coupled mechanics of soft materials and ultrasound-related applications.