Affiliation: Syracuse University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Zhao Qin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University. He graduated from the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University with Bachelor and Master Degrees in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He then received his PhD degree from MIT's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in 2012. After that, he worked as a postdoc associate and teaching fellow, and then a research scientist up through 2019. His studies focus on materials by design which generally cover advanced mechanical properties of nano and biological materials. By revealing how chemical structures relate to mechanical and biological functions of biological materials via multiscale computational modeling, he has developed ways to model and design materials with advanced functions for engineering applications. Other research interests of his include bio-inspired material designs, data-driven machine learning methods to optimize protein and polymer mechanics, as well as methods for additive manufacturing of biocomposite materials for optimized multifunctional materials.