Zhiliang Zhang

Short biography

Professor Zhiliang Zhang graduated with MSc degree in structural engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai in 1988. He received a PhD from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland in 1994, working on modeling of ductile fracture. Before being appointed as a full Professor in mechanics and materials at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2003, Zhang had worked at SINTEF Materials Technology, Trondheim for 9 years, and played a central role in building up the competence of the Fracture Mechanics group to an international level. He was a visiting young scientist (1998) at GKSS research centre, Germany and a visiting scientist (2000-2001) at Harvard University, USA. He was also a visiting professor at Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) (2005) and a Changjinag visiting professor at Beijing University of Science and Technology (2008-2011). Since 2009 Prof. Zhang has become a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. He was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Kyoto University in 2011 and is the chairman of the 20^th European Conference on Fracture (ECF20), to be held in Trondheim, 2014.

Professor Zhang is the founder of NTNU Nanomechanical Lab. He holds close contacts with the Norwegian industry and is currently leading a research team with 6 PhD students, 4 post-docs and several master students, working on diverse aspects of fracture problems related to engineering materials, from atomistic simulation to continuum modeling. He has more than 70 scientific papers published at per-reviewed international journals and 80 papers at international conference proceedings.

NTNU Nanomechanical Lab

The NTNU Nanomechanical lab was officially opened on the 29th of August 2006 by NTNU Rector Torbjørn Digerns. An International seminar on Nanomechanics was hold the same day. More than 70 peoples attended the seminar.