Dr. QINGHUA QIN born in Guilin City of China in 1958 received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from Chang An University, China in 1982, earning his Master of Science degree in 1984 and Doctoral degree in 1990 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. Both degrees are in applied mechanics. He joined the Department of Mechanics as an associate lecturer at HUST in 1984, and was promoted to lecturer in mechanics in 1987 during his PhD candidature period. After spending 10 years lecturing at HUST, he was awarded the DAAD/K.C. Wong research fellowship in 1994, which enabled him to work at the University of Stuttgart in Germany for nine months. In 1995 he left HUST to take up a postdoctoral research fellowship at Tsinghua University, China, where he worked until 1997.

He was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II fellowship in 1997 and a Professorial fellowship in 2002 at the University of Sydney and stayed there till December 2003, both by the Australian Research Council, and is currently working as a professor in the Research School of Engineering (RSE) at the Australian National University, Australia. He was appointed a guest professor at HUST in 2000. He was also awarded a Cheung Kong Professorship at Tianjin University in 2001 from the Ministry of Education of China. He has published more than 300 journal papers and 7 books in the field of applied mechanics.