Zi-Long Zhao

Beihang University
China

Zi-Long Zhao has been a full Professor in the Institute of Solid Mechanics at Beihang University (China) since 2021. He received his doctoral degree from Tsinghua University (China) in 2016. He is elected as an overseas high-level young talent of China, an ARC DECRA (Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) Fellow, and a young top talent of Beihang University. He is an expert of the Chinese Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the ARC. He is an editorial advisory board member of Engineering Fracture Mechanics. His research interests include solid mechanics, biomechanics, and structural topology optimization. By 2025, he has authored 2 book chapters and published more than 50 research papers in internationally renowned SCI journals such as Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Biophysical Journal, and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. He is the General Chair of the Third International Conference on Aerospace and Control Engineering (ICoACE 2024).