Xiqiao Feng
Tsinghua University, China
Xi-Qiao Feng is a Chang Jiang Chair Professor at Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. He earned a Ph.D. degree on Solid Mechanics in 1995 from Tsinghua University. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in Technical University of Darmstadt and Delft University of Technology. He rejoined Tsinghua University as an associate professor in 1999 and was promoted to a full professor in 2001.
Currently, he serves as a vice president of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM), the secretary-general of Beijing International Center of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (BICTAM), an editor-in-chief of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, and an executive member of International Council of Fracture (ICF). He also serves as an editorial/advisory board member of more than 15 other journals such as Acta Mechanica Sinica, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and International Journal of Damage Mechanics. In addition, he was the secretary-general of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM) during 2010-2014, head of Department of Engineering Mechanics of Tsinghua University during 2011-2020, director of Institute of Biomechanics and Medical Engineering (IBME) during 2006-2020.
His current interests include biomechanics, damage and fracture mechanics. He has authored and co-authored three monographs and about 500 international journal papers, which have received more than 23000 citations in Google. Selected Feng’s honors include the National Prize of Science and Technology of China (2019), the Award of Science and Technology for Young Scientists of China (2007), Distinguished Young Scholars Award of NSFC (2005), Young Scientist Award of Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (2004), Outstanding Teacher Award of Beijing (2021), Award for Best Doctoral Theses of China (1999), etc.