Guy M Genin
(Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Guy M. Genin applies fundamental concepts from engineering to control and probe living systems. His work advances surgical techniques, molecular detection, and therapies for inflammation, wound healing, and fibrosis. Genin serves as the Harold and Kathleen Faught Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington University, with appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery. At Xi'an Jiaotong University, he serves as Thousand Talents Plan Professor of Life Sciences. Genin co-directs the NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechanobiology and serves on the U.S. Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group’s steering committee and the Society of Engineering Science’s Board of Directors. A fellow of ASME, AIMBE, IAMBE, and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, Genin is chief engineer of Caeli Vascular, Inc., and CTO of Inflexion Vascular, LLC. Genin is the recipient of awards including a Research Career Award from the NIH; the Skalak Award and Savio Woo Medal from ASME; the Changjiang Scholar Award from the Chinese Ministry of Education; and the Eads Medal from the St. Louis Academy of Science. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Case Western Reserve University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard. He completed postdoctoral training at Cambridge and Brown.

M Taher Saif
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Professor Saif received his BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and Washington State University respectively. He received his PhD degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. He conducted his post doctoral research on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems at the National NanoFabrication Facility and Electrical Engineering, Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His current research includes mechanics of neurons and cardiac cells, development of biological machines, tumor micro environment, and electro-thermo-mechanical behavior of nano scale metals and semiconductors. He showed, for the first time, using embryonic fruit flies, that motor neurons generate tensile force within two ours of synaptogenesis. This force is essential in clustering neurotransmitter vesicles at the pre-synaptic terminal. Hence, the force may play a critical role in memory and learning in animals.

Q. Jane Wang
(Northwestern University, USA)

Q. Jane Wang obtained her Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1993 and is now a Professor there. She served the professional communities as a member of Board of Directors of STLE during 2008-2009, Secretary of the Technical Program Committee of the 2005 Word Tribology Congress, Chair of the Program Committee of the 2008 STLE Annual Meeting, Chair of the 2011 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference. Her research work has resulted in eight best-paper awards from ASME and STLE. She was elected Fellow of the ASME in 2009 and STLE in 2007. She received the 2015 STLE International Award and the 2024 ASME Mayo D. Hersey Award. She was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Lars Pastewka
(University of Freiburg, Germany)

Lars Pastewka is a professor in the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg, Germany. After receiving his PhD degree from the same university, he held a post-doctoral position at Johns Hopkins University and headed a junior research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He is the recipient of Fulbright, Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Emmy Noether Awards and has received a European Research Council Starting Grant. His research uses computer simulations to study contact, adhesion, and friction.

David Hills
(University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

David Hills read Engineering Science at Oxford, did a PhD at what was then Trent Polytechnic, and spent a transformative year at Ann Arbor with Jim Barber. He has been an academic in Oxford an a Fellow of Lincoln College since 1984. His fields of study have always been contact mechanics, fracture mechanics, and their intersection in fretting fatigue, a subject in which he remains active both experimentally and analytically.

Holm Altenbach
(Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)

Professor Dr.-Ing.habil. Dr.h.c.mult. Holm Altenbach is Member of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and the International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS), Italy. He has held positions at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, both in Germany. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1980 (diploma in Dynamics and Strength of Machines) and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in 1983 and his Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in 1987 at the same Institute. Until October 2022, he was a full professor of Engineering Mechanics at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Mechanics. His areas of scientific interest include: General theory of elastic and inelastic plates and shells, Creep and damage mechanics, Strength theories, and Nano- and micromechanics.

He is author/co-author/editor of 100 books, 590 scientific papers (360 of which were peer-reviewed) and 590 scientific lectures. He was the Managing Editor (2004 to 2014) and has been Editor-in-Chief (since 2006) of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (ZAMM) - the oldest journal in mechanics in Germany (founded by Richard von Mises in 1921). He is the Advisory Editor of the journal Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Springer), Associate Editor of the journal Mechanics of Composites (Riga) and Co-editor of the Springer Series "Advanced Structured Materials".
His numerous awards include: the 1992 Krupp-Award (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), 2000 Best paper of the year (Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design), 2003 Gold Medal of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Politechnika Lubelska, Poland, 2004 Semko-Medal of the National Technical University Kharkov, Ukraine, 2007 Doctor honoris causa, National Technical University Kharkov, Ukraine; 2011 Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 2014 Doctor honoris causa, University Constanta, Romania, 2016 Doctor honoris causa, Vekua-Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Award (Poland). In 2019 he was elected as Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 2021 of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Weiqiu CHEN
(Zhejiang University, China)

Dr. Weiqiu Chen is the Qiushi Distinguished Professor at the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University. He has engaged himself in mechanics of smart materials/structures, mechanics of soft materials and structures, and vibration/waves in structures for nearly thirty years. He has co-authored over 450 peer-reviewed journal articles and three English books on elasticity of transversely isotropic materials, piezoelectricity, and Green’s functions, respectively. He now serves as the editorial member (or associate editor or associate editor-in-chief) of more than a dozen of academic journals including Journal of Zhejiang University – SCIENCE A, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Journal of Thermal Stresses, Composite Structures, Engineering Structures, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, and Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition).

Marco Paggi
(IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)

https://www.imtlucca.it/it/marco.paggi

Itai Einav
(The University of Sydney, Australia)

Itai Einav is working at the University of Sydney as a professor of geomechanics and as the Director of Sydney Centre in Geomechanics and Mining Materials (SciGEM). Itai’s research focus is on the physics of porous and geomaterials including sands, clays, rocks, and snow. His current research encompasses the granular physics of mineral processes, the science of collapse in brittle porous media, the origin of geotechnical failures, and of natural disasters such as earthquake faulting and landslides in soils, and avalanches in snow.

Kenichi Soga
(University of California Berkeley, USA)

JIANFU SHAO
(University of Lille, France)

Jianfu Shao is currently an exceptional-class professor at University of Lille. He has brought original contributions to theoretical development, experimental investigation and numerical modeling in the field of geomechanics, in particular on multi-scale approaches. He is an associated editor of two major international journals (IJRMMS, RMRE) and a member of editorial board for five other top international journals. He is the recipient of the Maurice A. Biot Medal (2022) for his seminal contributions to understanding the role of microstructure to macroscopic behavior of porous materials. He is a senior member of the IUF.

Santosh Kapuria
(Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Santosh Kapuria, currently the R. C. Malhotra Chair Professor and Head of Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, received his PhD in Applied Mechanics in 1997 from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Prof. Kapuria began his professional career in 1991 at Engineers India Limited (EIL), New Delhi, a premier engineering consultancy organization in Asia, gaining a rich experience of eleven years in advanced engineering and industrial R&D. In Sept. 2002, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics. He joined IIT Delhi as an Associate Professor in September 2002, where he became a full Professor in December 2006 and was awarded the higher academic grade (HAG) in July 2013. He has held the Rajat Gupta Chair and currently holds the R. C. Malhotra Chair. Prof. Kapuria served as Director of CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, a prestigious National Laboratory under the Ministry of Science and Technology, from Dec. 2015 to Dec. 2020. He was the Theme Director for Civil Infrastructure and Engineering Theme at CSIR from September 2019 till the end of his tenure at CSIR. Prof. Kapuria thus possesses an extraordinary blend of experience in industry, academia, and R&D institutions.

Prof. Kapuria’s scientific research interests are the mechanics of smart (multifunctional) structures, composite, sandwich, and functionally graded material structures, computational structural mechanics, and structural health monitoring. He has made seminal contributions in these areas, spanning analytical, computational, and experimental domains, while successfully guiding 15 Ph.D. students. He has published over 155 publications in leading journals and 105 in conferences with over 4625 citations and an h-index of 38 (GS). He has also handled 14 sponsored R&D projects and 12 consultancy projects with a total outlay of Rs. 560.8 million. He has been a Humboldt Research Fellow at TU Darmstadt, Germany and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the four national academies of India, namely, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has served as a member of the Sectional Committees for Fellows’ election for all four academies. He received the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship from DST in 2018. In 2022, IIT Delhi honored him with the best researcher award, named Prof. P. C. P. Bhatt Faculty Research Award. He has been a member of the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics since 2016.

NING LUO
(China University of Mining and Technology, China)

Professor,Academician Xu Zhilun is an outstanding teacher in mechanics and a young academic leader at China University of Mining and Technology. Mainly engaged in scientific and technological research related to explosion and impact dynamics (high-performance computing and impact protection theory), deep rock dynamics (resource and energy development and key mechanical problems), advanced functional material mechanics and design, intelligent blasting and engineering blasting scheme design. In recent years, we have mainly undertaken one sub project of the National Key R&D Program, three projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, six research projects of GF Engineering, one project of the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, one municipal key R&D project, and more than 20 cutting-edge projects of central universities, including major/major/general/youth projects, and enterprise innovation projects. As a backbone researcher, we have participated in 10 national and provincial level projects and won one first prize of the Science and Technology Award of the China Blasting Industry Association One first prize of the Science and Technology Award of the China Coal Industry Association and three first prizes of the Science and Technology Award of the Provincial Association. Up to now, more than 130 articles have been published in high-level academic journals. Publish three academic monographs/textbooks. Authorized 28 national invention patents and software copyrights.

Li MA
(Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

Dr. Li MA is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at Harbin Institute of Technology in China. His current research interests include lightweight composite lattice structures (and/or architected materials/structures, hierarchical structures) and its applications, Mechanical metamaterials (or metastructures), Multifunctional materials and structures, and mechanics of composite materials and structures.

Sung Hoon Kang
(Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Yichun Zhou
(029-81892617, China)

Zhou Yichun holds the position of Professor at Xidian University. He earned his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the National University of Defense Technology and the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1988 and 1994, respectively. His primary research focuses on ferroelectric thin films, their memories, and thermal barrier coatings for aero engines, examined through the lens of material science and mechanics. He boasts a publication record of over 400 SCI papers and has garnered over 11,000 citations. Furthermore, he has overseen numerous projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation.

Solon Tsimpoukis
(University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Pursuing PhD in Eng. Mechanics

Ke Liu
(Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

Liu Ke, a PhD candidate at Northwestern Polytechnical University. She is currently researching mechanical characteristics of solid materials, multi-field coupling behavior, and solid constitutive relationships, with a focus on theoretical modeling and experimental analysis of multi-field coupling behavior, the study of fatigue characteristics and life prediction methods. As the primary researcher, she worked on two national-level research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National XXX Science and Technology Project, as well as five provincial-level research projects. The related achievements have been published in well-known industry publications, such as International Journal of Fatigue, Ceramics International, Smart Materials and Structures, and Materials science & Engineering A.

HOOMIN LEE
(Hanyang University, Korea, Republic of)

Hoomin Lee received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Hanyang University, Korea, in 2019. He is currently pursuing the integrated Ph.D. course in mechanical engineering, Hanyang University, Korea. His research interests include structural optimization, penetration analysis, particle dynamics, and additive manufacturing.

Shailesh Kundalwal
(IIT Indore, India)

Shailesh I. Kundalwal is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering who specializes in Design Engineering stream. Before joining IIT Indore in 2017, he was Banting Fellow at the University of Toronto. He obtained his M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mechanics from IIT Kharagpur. By the end of MTech (Mechanical Systems Design) program, he was awarded with an honorary Prof. D. P. Ghosh Memorial Award for securing the first rank and being best outgoing PG students enrolled in Applied Mechanics specializations. He proposed a novel multifunctional Fuzzy Fiber Reinforced Composite in his doctoral studies which led to a critical breakthrough in the field of hybrid nanocomposites. He founded the Applied and Theoretical Mechanics (ATOM) Laboratory at IIT Indore which undertakes research mainly in computational and experimental investigations of nanostructures.He guided 19 BTech, 9 MTech, 9 PhD and 2 MS(R) students as well as completed five projects successfully funded by national/international funding agencies. He has authored 82 research articles (excluding conference papers and chapters) in reputed international journals.

Stelios Kyriakides
(University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Regular participant in ICTAM; former member of the Congress Committee and General Assembly; Editor Int. Journal of Solids and Structures.

Henryk Petryk
(Institute of Fundamental Technological Research PAS, Poland)

Henryk Petryk is Professor at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT), Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He graduated from Warsaw University of Technology in 1974, received his PhD and DSc degrees at IPPT in 1978 and 1988, respectively, and received the title of Professor in 1995. Head of the Department of Mechanics of Materials at IPPT from 2007 to 2024, Chair of the Scientific Council of IPPT from 2012 to 2018. Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, visiting Professor in Germany, France, Japan, Italy, China. His research interests center on the mechanics of solids, mainly on theory of plasticity, bifurcation and instability, variational methods, micromechanics of materials, evolution of microstructures in metal crystals and shape memory alloys, internal length scales and size effects. He published over a hundred papers, most of which focused on fundamental problems in solid mechanics, 40 as the sole author. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Mechanics since 1999. He served as Associate Editor of European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, 1995-2004, and Comptes Rendus Mecanique (Paris), 2001-2009. Since 1996, he has been a member of the Scientific Council of International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine, Italy. From 2016 to 2022 the Secretary-General of IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics).

Pedro Ponte Castañeda
(University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Pedro Ponte Castañeda is Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow and Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, as well as Member of the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics & Computational Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics from Lehigh University in 1982, and an S.M. in Engineering Sciences and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. Prior to joining Penn, he was Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (1987-90). He was also Professor of Mechanics at the École Polytechnique (2004-08; part time 2006-08). He has held visiting positions at the C.N.R.S. in Marseilles, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University, as well as the University of Stuttgart. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids and of the Journal of Elasticity. He is an ASME Fellow and his honors include the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award (2000), the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research from Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (2007), the Humboldt Senior Research Award (2013) and the ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal (2016).

Chris Pearce
(University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

I am Professor of Computational Mechanics in the James Watt School of Engineering's Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Zhongqing SU
(The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China)

Prof. Zhongqing Su is the Chair Professor of Intelligent Structures and Systems and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ultrasonics (Elsevier), and he holds the Changjiang Chair Professorship conferred by the Ministry of Education, China. He is an elected Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV). Prof. Su has been the Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (HKSTAM) since 2023. His research interests span the area of ultrasonics, structural health monitoring (SHM), wave propagation, smart materials, intelligent systems, and advanced composites.

Igor Berinskii
(Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Dr. Igor Berinskii is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Igor does research in Solid Mechanics, Materials Science, and Dynamics of Mechanical Systems. His current studies are devoted to multiscale mechanics of solids, particle methods in mechanics of solids, nonlinear dynamics. The studies are applied to micromechanics of fracture, 2D materials such as graphene and MoS2, lattice artificial materials, NEMS and MEMS, and biomaterials.

Yegao Qu
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Animangsu Ghatak
(Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

Fan Xu
(Fudan University, China)

Dr. Fan XU is a professor of solid mechanics at Fudan University (China). He received his bachelor's degree in engineering mechanics from Wuhan University (China) in 2009, and his master's degree in solid mechanics from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (France) in 2011. He completed his PhD in solid mechanics at University of Lorraine (France) in 2014, studying mechanical instability of film/substrate systems. He continued to work in LEM3-CNRS as a postdoctoral researcher, and expanded his research interests to mechanics of soft materials and slender structures. His current research interests include morphomechanics and physics of thin films, soft matter and 2D materials. He has published more than 70 papers in international journals such as Phys. Rev. Lett., Nature Comput. Sci., Nature Biomed. Eng., J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Comput. Method. Appl. Mech. Eng., Nano Lett., Adv. Funct. Mater., Int. J. Eng. Sci., Int. J. Solids Struct., etc. His research was highlighted by Nature, Nature Phys., Nature Comput. Sci., Nature Biomed. Eng., and selected as cover image by Nature Comput. Sci., Phys. Rev. Lett., Nano Lett., and Proc. Roy. Soc. A. He received the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of NSFC, Qian Xuesen Outsantding Young Scholar Award, Second Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award (First Recipient), ASME Prize (French section), and was selected as “Shanghai Shuguang Scholar” and “2018 Ten Emerging Star Scientists in China”.

Zhan Kang
(Dalian University of Technology, China)

Dr. Zhan Kang is a Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of Dalian University of Technology. He graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1992, received his MEng in mechanics from Dalian University of Technology in 1995 and his Dr. –Ing. degree from Stuttgart University, Germany in 2005. His current research involves issues such as topology optimization, structural optimization under uncertainties, design optimization of smart structures and nanomechanics. He is the chief editor of Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics, editor board member of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Dr. Kang has published over 150 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and two monographs. He has received 10000 citations and has an H-index of 54 (Google Scholar). Dr. Kang has been granted the Outstanding Youth Fund of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has been principal investigator of 9 NSFC projects and a Key Project of Chinese National Programs for Fundamental Research and Development. He has also conducted many consultancy projects.

Xiaojia Shelly Zhang
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Erik Lund
(Aalborg University, Denmark)

C. Nataraj
(Villanova University, USA)

Dr. C. Nataraj (Nat) is the Moritz Endowed Distinguished Professor in Engineered Systems and the Founding Director of the Villanova Center for Analytics of Dynamic Systems (http://vcads.org) at Villanova University. Nat has BS from IIT (India) and MS and PhD from Arizona State University. He has served as Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and the founding Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control. Nat has been a university winner of the Villanova Outstanding Research Award runner up for the university Lindback Outstanding Teaching Award. He has published a textbook and 250+ peer-reviewed papers in dynamic systems, is a Life Fellow of ASME, the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Vibration Engineering Technologies and serves on the editorial board of three other international journals. Nat’s current research interests are in the intersection of physics-based engineering and machine learning with applications to mechanical, electromechanical and biomedical systems. He has received research funding from ONR, DARPA, NSF and NIH. His research has received media attention including a TEDx talk, and articles in Wired, Forbes and US News and World Report. Nat is the founder and host of Nodycast, the world’s first and only podcast on Nonlinear Dynamics.

Paulo Batista Gonçalves
(Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio, Brazil)

Graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Brasília (1979), master's degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1983), DSc in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1987) and post-doctoral research at University College London (1988). Currently Full Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Researcher CNPq 1A since 2006 and CNE, FAPERJ, since 2007. The research work covers mainly the following topics: structural instability, structural dynamics, vibration control, nonlinear vibrations, global dynamics, dynamic integrity, dynamic systems theory, membranes bio-membranes, structures subject to large deformations, unilateral contact problems, fluid-structure and soil-structure interactions, multistability, new materials, stochastic dynamics and wind energy. More than 500 articles published in the areas of structural instability and dynamics. Organizer and editor of several national and international conferences, symposia and special issues. Editorial board of several technical journals.

Haiyan Hu
(Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Dr. Haiyan Hu is Chair Professor of Mechanics at Beijing Institute of Technology. He has made recognized contributions to the nonlinear dynamics of controlled systems, the deployment dynamics of large space structures, and the flutter control of aircraft structures. He received The State Award of Natural Sciences twice and some other honors, including Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honorary Member of Hungary Academy of Sciences, Honorary Doctor of Moscow State University, and ASME Thomas Caughey Dynamics Award.