Dr. Scott X. Mao Was Appointed as a Kuang-piu Lecture Professor of Zhejiang University

June 22, 2007

On June 19, 2007, Dr. Scott X Mao, Director of Nanomechanics Laboratory, Pittsburgh University, USA, was appointed as a Kuang-piu lecture professor of Zhejiang University. At the ceremony, Vice-President Chu Jian issued a letter of appointment and a university badge to him. After that Dr. Mao gave a lecture on nanotubes and nanowires of piezoelectric capability.

Scott X. Mao graduated at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics in 1982, and received a PhD degree in Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Tohuku University, 1988. After that he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachuset Institute of Technology (MIT), and now is a William Kepler Whiteford Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of Nanomechanics Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are in the areas of nanomechanical behavior of materials, materials science, micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) and micro fabrication; and piezoelectric/ferroelectric nanowires for sensor and nano-device applications, atomic force microscope and nanomechanics. He has received many research and teaching awards in last 15 years including 2006 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award (Senior Scholar category), and has published more than one hundred papers including 80 journal and 50 conference publications in the journals of Science, J. Mechanic & Physics of Solids, Applied Physics Letter, Acta Materialia and Philosophical Magazine.