Dr. Jinlong Fu is now a postdoctoral researcher in Mechanical Engineering. He started his research career in computational mechanics and numerical modelling by studying at Swansea University as a PhD student in October 2016. After a four-year study, He completed my PhD project in September 2020. He was awarded the Roger Owen Prize 2021 for the Best PhD Thesis in the UK Association for Computational Mechanics (UKACM). He has a multidisciplinary research background with research experience at the interface of porous media, data science, numerical simulation, physics-based modelling, and artificial intelligence (AI). His broad research interests focus on material failure, pore-scale flow modelling, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, model order reduction, and high-performance soft computing. 

Dr. Yang Liu completed his undergraduate studies in management science at Southeast University, China. He then earned a master’s degree in civil engineering from South China University of Technology. After graduation, he began his career as a civil engineer at China Overseas Real Estate Company. In 2020, Dr Liu embarked on his PhD research at Tsinghua University, and in 2023, he undertook a research visit as a joint PhD student at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He was awarded his PhD from Tsinghua University in June 2024.

As a rising early-career researcher, Dr Liu specialises in structural topology optimisation, multiscale modelling and characterisation of mechanical metamaterials, multiphysics modelling and analysis, and physics-informed machine learning. He has published more than 10 papers in prestigious journals, such as Nature Communications, Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics, and the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Dr Liu has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Tsinghua University, Outstanding Doctoral Graduate Award from Tsinghua University, etc.

Dr. Hongye Guo is now a postdoctoral researcher in polymer science. After obtaining the Bachelor and Master degree in Materials Science from University of Cambridge, he started his research career as a PhD student working alongside Prof Eugene Terentjev at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. His works centred around Liquid Crystalline Elastomers (LCE), gaining experiences in polymer synthesis, material characterisation, adhesion testing, impact damping study, and much more. He completed his PhD projects in 2024, and joined Dr Wei Tan’s group as a postdoctoral researcher, developing self-healing, impact-resistant materials

Emilio Gomez is a fourth-year PhD student. He has completed Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering (First Class with Honours) from Queen Mary University of London. He is developing thermally conductive and crashworthy composite materials using thermal-mechanical modelling. His work is funded by Graphene Flagship Core project 3. (Supervisors: Dr Wei Tan, Prof. James Busfield, Prof. Nicola Pugno)

Hirak Kansara is a fourth-year PhD student who has completed Master of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering (First Class with Honours) from Queen Mary, University of London. Hirak is currently developing novel cellular composites for Crash Energy Absorption using Data-driven methods, on a project funded by the EPSRC. (Supervisors: Dr Wei Tan, Dr. Pihua Wen) [Paper 1] [Conf. Paper 1]

Wenqi Wang is a fourth-year PhD student in SEMS, Queen Mary. He was educated in the Beijing Institution of Technology from 2014 to 2018 (Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering) and Queen Mary University of London in 2019-2020 (Distinction Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering). He was under the supervision of Dr. Jun Chen in his MSc research project for flight simulation framework research. He also worked in the medical equipment research group of Chinese Academy of Sciences for CT radioactive source materials. Now he is working on the cellular composites structure for crashing energy absorption, mainly focus on the design methods of the micro-structures of cellular composites to improving their mechanical properties. (Supervisors: Dr Wei Tan, Prof. Vassili Toropov)

Jie Yang is a 3rd year PhD student at SEMS, Queen Mary funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) scholarship. He completed his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Jiangsu University, China. He is interested in coupled electrochemical-mechanical modelling of battery degradations. (Supervisors: Dr. Wei Tan, Dr. Ana Jorge Sobrido)

Afni Restasari is a 3rd year PhD student at SEMS, Queen Mary University of London funded by Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) scholarship. She completed her Bachelor degree in Chemistry at Diponegoro University, Indonesia. She completed her Master degree in Polymer physics at Kanazawa University, Japan. She is interested in nanoparticles reinforced rubber composites. (Supervisors: Dr. Wei Tan, Prof. James Busfield)