Liangchi Zhang
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Liangchi Zhang (Chinese: 章亮炽; born July 1958) is an Australian mechanical engineer and scientist. Zhang has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia. He is now a Scientia Professor and Australian Professional Fellow at the University of New South Wales.
Biography
[edit]Zhang was born in Huangyan District, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China in July 1958. Zhang received BS in 1982 and ME in 1985 both from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Zhang obtained PhD in 1988 from Peking University in Beijing. From 1989 to 1991, Zhang did postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in UK. From 1991 to 1992, Zhang was a research fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory of MITI in Japan.[1] Zhang received an honorary Doctor of Engineering in 2005 from the University of Sydney.
Zhang was the Chairman of the 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications in Sydney in 2002 (AEPA2002); the Chairman of the 3rd Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics in Sydney in 2002 (ACAM2002); and the Chairman of the 1st International Symposium on Advances in Abrasive Technology in Sydney in 1997 (ISAAT'97). Zhang is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering.[2]
Zhang was elected as Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2006.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Prof. Liangchi Zhang's homepage
- About Professor Liangchi Zhang, the University of Sydney
- Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Professor Liangchi Zhang
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- Scientists from Taizhou, Zhejiang
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- Zhejiang University alumni
- Peking University alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Sydney
- Chinese emigrants to Australia
- Living people
- Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering