About Daining Fang’s work
From October to December 1999 and from July to October 2000, Daining Fang held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Fang was based at Tsinghua University.
Biography
Daining Fang graduated from Nanjing University of Technology in 1982, received a master’s degree from Nanjing University of Technology in 1986, received a PhD from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1993. He served as an associate professor and professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics of Tsinghua University from 1995 to 2009, and served as a Chair professor at Peking University from 2009 to 2015.
He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2018, and a International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022. Fang has expanded the theory of macroscopic and microscopic deformation and fracture of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic materials, applied in finite element analysis and device design. He has developed the multi-field and multi-axis loading and testing technology and experimental methods of advanced materials mechanical and electromagnetic thermal, and transformed the basic research results into more than ten kinds of scientific instruments with independent intellectual property rights.