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Principal Investigator

Dr. Shu-Wei Chang

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University

Dr. Shu-Wei Chang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Markus J. Buehler. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. Prior to joining NTU, Dr. Chang had worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are associated with the employment of atomistic and multiscale computational modeling to understand the mechanics of materials, including biomaterials and synthetic materials at the nano- and micro- scales, with an aim to integrate nanoscale approaches to engineering problems.

Education

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, 2014
M.S., Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008
B.S., Civil Engineering, Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006

Research Interests

Computational Mechanics
Computational Materials
Biomechanics, Collagen
Mechanobiology
Atomic Scale Modeling
Multi-scale/Multi-physics Modeling

Honors and Awards

2022 Young Investigator Award, Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM)
2022 Young Scholar Award, Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Republic of China
2021 Young Professor Award in Chinese Society of Structural Engineering
2019 Young Scholar Fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2018 Excellence in Teaching Award, NTU
2011 NSF Fellowship for Cancer Nanotechnology Summer Institute
2010 Presidential Graduate Fellowship, MIT
2007 Scholarship of Schoolfellow Association, NTU
2007 Scholarship of Sinotech Engineering Consultants Inc
2004 Scholarship of Schoolfellow Association, NTU
2002 Award of Outstanding Student, NTU

Services and Additional Activities

2022 – now General Council, IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics)
2022 – now Secretary General, ACMT (The Association of Computational Mechanics Taiwan)
2020 - 2022, Secretary General, Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Republic of China (中華民國力學學會)
2020 - 2022, Deputy secretary, Taiwanese Society of Biomechanics (台灣生物力學學會)
2019 - now, General Council, APACM (The International Association of Computational Mechanics, Asian Pacific Region)
2015 - now, General Council, ACMT (The Association of Computational Mechanics Taiwan)