Professor Qinghua Qin  BEng Xi'an MSc PhD HUST FIEAust

Position: Professor and Head of Materials and Manufacturing Group

Office – R217 Ian Ross Building, Building 31

Phone - (61 2) 6125  8274

Fax -     (61 2) 6125  0506

E-mail – qinghua.qin@anu.edu.au

Postal Address-

Department of Engineering, Engineering Building 32, North Road

Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.

Brief Biography

Qualifications

Teaching and Research Areas

Scholarships and awards

Employment History

Research Grants

Professional Societies and Service Record

Selected Publications

PhD and Master studentships

·     1995    Chinese Education Committee Foundation for Scholars returning from abroad, on “Fracture mechanics of piezoelectric materials” (REM$25,000)

·     1996    Chinese Education Committee Postdoctoral Foundation, on “Interfaces and their   influences on piezoelectric composites” (REM$5000 & US$1000)

·     1997    ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship project on “Theoretical and experimental studies on the micro-defect-weakened- piezo- thermoelastic materials”, (1997-2001, AU$388608, Grant No. F89700665)

·     1999    ARC Institutional small grant, on “Dynamic fracture and damage analysis of piezoelectric and functionally gradient materials” (AU$17,000)

·     2000    ARC large grant, on “Thermo-electro-mechanical analysis of advanced microelectronic packages” (2000-2002, AU$192,836, Grant No. A10009133)

·     2002    ARC Discovery-Project, on “Thermo-electro-chemo-mechanical properties of biological systems”  (2002-2006, AU$686,825, Grant No. DP0209487)

·     2004   ARC Discovery-Project, on “Rheological and electrical properties of biological soft tissues”  (2004-2006, AU$249,000, CI: Qinghua Qin, APD:  Dr Z Liu and CI: Dr. Y Yu, DP0451097)

·     2005    Faculty Research Grant Scheme of FEIT, ANU for new start on “Thermoelectroelastic theory of bone remodelling process”(AU$5000)

·     2006   ARC Discovery-Project, on “Theoretical and experimental studies on magnetoelectroelastic bone remodelling process” (2006-2008, AU$260,000, CIs: Qinghua Qin and S  Kalyanasundaram, DP0665941)

·     2007   CityU Strategic Research Grant on “Theoretical Study on Cancellous Bone Modelling and Remodelling under Electro-magneto-elastic Field” (City University of Hong Kong, No.   7002076; Apr 1, 2007 – Mar 31, 2009;   Principal Investigator: He Xiaoqiao, Co-Investigator: Qin Qinghua; HK$179,464)

·     2007   ANU Major Equipment Committee Grant on “Mechanical test facility for microtesting of biological/nanostructured materials”(2007, AU$186,876, CIs:  A Lowe, S Kalyanasundaram, RE Williamson, and Qinghua Qin; ANU file No. 200711619; Funds provider ref number: 07MEC11)

·     2007  AIS – Scholarship Agreement on “Optimisation of a respiratory gas analysis system for use with high-performance athletes” (2007-2008, $24000)

·     2008  Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship Grant on “A study of challenging mechanics problems in exploiting water power”, Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), Fund provider Ref No. 46118 (2008, $28160)

·     2009  ANU Major Equipment Committee Grant on “A couple micro-/nano-scale imaging and polarisation charactersation facility” (2009, AU$400,000, with Y Liu, RL Withers, JW White, R Welberry, RP Wang, DJ Goossens, MG Humphrey, L Fu; MEC grant number: 09MEC21)

Editorial boards

·         Associate Editor, International Journal of Tomography and Statistics, 2005-http://www.ceser.res.in/isder/ijts/eb-ijts.html

·         Member of editorial board, Journal of Mechanics and MEMS, 2008-

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·         Member of editorial board, Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2009-

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·         Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Recent Patents on Space Technology (open journal), 2009- (http://www.bentham.org/open/rptst/EBM.htm)

·         Member of editorial board, Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics, 2003-2006

·         Guest Editor, Special Issue on “BEM in China”, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 28(8), 903-995, 2004

Professional services

·         Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia (elected in 2007)

·         Chairman, National Conference on Smart Materials & Structures, Tianjin, China, 10-12 April, 2003

·         Member of International Scientific Committee of the Global Chinese Workshop on Boundary Element and Meshless Methods, 4th-6th September 2003, Qinhuangdao, China

·         Member of Advisory Committee, 9th International Conference on Inspection, Appraisal, Repairs and Maintenance of Structures, 19th-21st October 2005, Fuzhou, China

·         Member of Scientific Committee, the 5th International workshop on Trefftz Methods, March 31~April 1, 2008, Leuven, Belgium

·         Referee for Marden Fund Council of New Zealand (2003, 2004)

·          Int-reader for ARC (expert assessor of international standing), 2005-

·          Referee of Changjiang Scholar Program for the Ministry of Education of China, 2007

·          Referee of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2008

·         Chairman,  Workshop on Damage, Fracture and Micro/Nano Mechanics (WDFM-2009), August 20-22, 2009, Beijing, China (Chairmen: Wei Yang, Xiqiao Feng, Qinghua Qin)

·          Member of International Organizing Committee, The Third Asia-Pacific International Conference in Computational Methods in Engineering 2009 (ICOME2009), October 18-20, 2009, Nanjing, China.

·         Member of Local Academic Promotions Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science, ANU, 2009

·          Papers reviewed for more than 20 international journals

The Endeavour Awards is the Australian Government’s internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe and the Americas to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. For further information, visit the Endeavour Awards website at www.endeavour.deewr.gov.au.