About

Professor, Applied Mechanics

Office – 738 Davis Hall
Phone – (510) 642-5362
FAX – (510) 643-8928
E-mail – li@ce.berkeley.edu
Adress – University of California at Berkeley, 783 Davis Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1710 USA.

For more information, see: CV-Li

Research Interests

Computational mechanics;
Bio- and Nano-mechanics, Mechanics of soft matters;
Multiscale simulations and Computational statistical mechanics;
Micromechanics, Configurational force mechanics;

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (06/1997) Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering (05/1993) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
M.S. in Computational Mechanics (06/1989) Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (06/1982) East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

Major Awards

2014 Distinguished Fellow of ICCES
2013 The ICACM Computational Mechanics Award (International Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics)
2013 The USACM Fellow Award (The United States Association of Computational Mechanics)
2008 A. Richard Newton Research Breakthrough Award
2003 National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Professional Experience

2010 – Present Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2007 – 2017 Visiting Changjiang Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
06/2008 – 07/2008 Visiting Professor, University of Paris-EST Marne-La-Vallee, France
2005 – 2010 Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2000 – 2005 Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1997 – 2000 Post Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1982 – 1986 Assistant Engineer, Wuhan Material Protection Research Institute, China