Zhou Kun

Biography

Dr. Zhou is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests focus on micro/nano mechanics of materials and structures, novel computational methods for modeling material behavior, and sustainable energy and green technologies. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA from 2007 to 2010. He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA in the summer of 2013. He has published 11 book chapters and over 200 papers in refereed journals including Progress in Materials Science, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, JMPS, Acta Materialia, CMAME and IJNME. He serves as an Editor of Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics, an Associate Editor of Mechanics Research Communications, and an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Applied Mechanics, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, Materials Physics and Mechanics, and Scientific Reports. He is also on the Elasticity Technical Committee of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Research Interest

Material reliability and sustainabilityï¼›contact mechanics and tribologyï¼›3D printing; first-principles calculation and atomistic simulationï¼›synthesis, characterization and modeling of nanomaterials.