About
I have been in Liverpool since 2011 as the A.A. Griffith Chair of Structural Materials and Mechanics and Dean of the School of Engineering between 2019 and 2026. I am a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Society for Experimental Mechanics.
Previously, I was in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Chair, 2004-09) at Michigan State University, USA; and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Head, 2001-04) at the University of Sheffield. I was a founding member and Director of the Composite Vehicle Research Center at Michigan State University.
Prizes or Honours
- Hsue-Shen Tsien Professorship of Engineering Science (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014)
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (Royal Society, 2011)