ZHANG Weihong
Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Prof. Weihong ZHANG is currently the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, full professor in the School of Mechatronic Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He received his PhD degree from University of Liege, Belgium in 1991. He worked as researcher fellow, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor in University of Liege, Belgium and University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard from 1992-1999. He joined Northwestern Polytechnical University and was honored as Cheung Kong Chair Professor (1999) and Distinguished Young Scholar of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2009). His research interests cover advanced structure design and manufacturing. He obtained the Second Prize of National Award for Natural Science and Technological Invention, five First-Prizes of Provincial Awards for Science and Technology, as well as Asian Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ASSMO) Award and Fellow award. He serves as the associate editor of Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica, Science China-Technological Sciences, editorial board member of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, EC member of ASSMO, etc. He has more than 100 national invention patents and published more than 500 peer-reviewed journal papers including papers on CMAME, IJNME, IJMTM and 6 monographs with more than 20000 citations. He chaired more than 80 projects including National Key Research and Development Program, Key Projects of NSFC, 973 Projects and 863 Projects. He is the director of State Joint Research Center of Aerospace Materials and Structure Design and Additive Manufacturing of Ministry of Science and Technology, recognized as the distinguished expert of All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, assessment expert for “Recruitment Program of High-end Foreign Experts” of Chinese government, committee member of the evaluation groups for National Natural Science Foundation of China, and member of Seventh Appraisal committee for Aeronautical and Astronautical Science and Technology Discipline of State Council.