Announcements
6 July 2026
Welcoming the New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Applied Mechanics
Applied Mechanics (ISSN 2673-3161) is pleased to add the following 20 researchers to the 2026 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulates them on becoming part of the Applied Mechanics community!
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Name: Dr. Jude Osara Website: https://people.utwente.nl/j.a.osara Affiliation: Department of Mechanics of Solids, Surfaces and Systems, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands Interests: degradation thermodynamics; system characterization; tribology; irreversible thermodynamics; lubricant grease, design and manufacturing |
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Name: Dr. Daniele Gaetano Website: https://dinci.unical.it/storage/teachers/daniele.gaetano/?lang=en Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy Interests: fracture mechanics; cohesive zone model; nonlinear homogenization; multiscale approach; composite materials |
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Name: Dr. Reza Hirmand Website: https://uwaterloo.ca/fatigue-stress-analysis-lab/contacts/mohammadreza-hirmand Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Canada Interests: computational mechanics; fracture mechanics; numerical methods; energy methods and mathematical optimization; contact–impact problems; hydraulic fracturing modeling; cold spray additive manufacturing modeling |
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Name: Dr. Malik Hassan Website: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/malikhassan14 Affiliation: Department of Interdisciplinary Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada Interests: computational mechanics; finite element modeling; advanced manufacturing; structural analysis; materials engineering |
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Name: Dr. Can Wang Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=WUx-95sAAAAJ Affiliation: Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering, UCLouvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Interests: fretting fatigue; solid mechanics; damage mechanics; fracture mechanics; FEM; artificial neural network |
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Name: Dr. Nagamadhu M Website: https://bmsit.irins.org/profile/237516 Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, BMS Institute of Technology and Management, 560064 Bengaluru, India Interests: polymer; metal composites; synthetic foam; sintering; machine design; mechanical characterization; dynamic mechanical analysis; thermomechanical analysis; life estimation; fatigue; polyurethane foam; ascetic structure |
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Name: Dr. Dong-Ming Li Website: http://scea.whut.edu.cn/szdw/jsdw/202311/t20231129_972001.shtml Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China Interests: computational solid mechanics; mechanics of materials |
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Name: Dr. Wandercleiton Cardoso Website: https://www.icmate.cnr.it/aboutus/staff_by_units-2/genoa_staff/dasilvacardosowandercleiton/ Affiliation: Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa, 16145 Genova, Italy Interests: thermodynamic modeling; artificial intelligence; the production and optimization of metallic materials |
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Name: Dr. Toan Minh Le Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5805-9302 Affiliation: 1. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Ho Chi Minh City 70000, Vietnam 2. Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Ho Chi Minh City 70000, Vietnam Interests: structural mechanics; solid mechanics; computational mechanics; structural optimization |
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Name: Dr. Abhilash Sreekumar Website: https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00167912 Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Mechatronic System Dynamics (LMSD), KU Leuven, Gent 9000, Belgium Interests: computational mechanics; multiscale methods; porous media; vibroacoustics; topology optimization |
| Name: Dr. S. Narayan Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7033-6341 Affiliation: School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico Interests: power systems; electric machines; power electronics; automotive systems; heat and mass transfer; turbo machinery; fluid mechanics; acoustics; NVH; project management |
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Name: Dr. Pengcheng Zhao Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5237-1717 Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China Interests: mechanics; manufacturing; materials processing; surface quality; damage detection |
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Name: Dr. Oğuzhan Çetindemir Website: https://mim.iku.edu.tr/en/academic-staff Affiliation: Department of Motor Vehicles and Transportation Technologies, İstanbul Okan University, İstanbul 34959, Türkiye Interests: earthquake and structural engineering; computational mechanics; structural concrete; structural health monitoring; soil–pile–structure interaction; machine learning; geopolymer concrete; seismic hazard and risk assessment |
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Name: Dr. Paweł Kwiatoń Website: http://www.imipkm.pcz.pl/pawel-kwiaton/ Affiliation: Department of Mechanics and Machine Design Fundamentals, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland Interests: multibody dynamics; load motion; path planning; cranes; manipulators; wind force |
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Name: Dr. Ping Cheng Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gUdBakAAAAJ&hl=en Affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing for Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China Interests: 3D printing of composite material; mechanics of composite materials; material damage behavior |
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Name: Dr. Nasser Firouzi Website: https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/civil-and-environmental-engineering/institute/ism/team/ Affiliation: Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 99423 Weimar, Germany Interests: computational mechanics |
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Name: Dr. Behzad Vasheghani Farahani Website: https://research.ugent.be/web/person/behzad-vasheghani-farahani-0/en Affiliation: Department of Electromechanical Systems and Metal Engineering, Soete Laboratory, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium Interests: computational mechanics; experimental mechanics; fatigue, damage; fracture; SHM; meshless methods |
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Name: Dr. Quanbo Lu Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0941-4835 Affiliation: College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing Polytechnic University of Electronic Technology, Chongqing 401331, China Interests: artificial intelligence; digital twin; signal processing; fault diagnosis; smart manufacturing |
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Name: Dr. Shuo Qiao Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0829-6080 Affiliation: School of Intelligence Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China Interests: solid mechanics; fracture and damage mechanics; mechanics of materials; mechanical engineering |
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Name: Dr. Wenjie Li Affiliation: School of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China Interests: mechanical dynamics; vibration and noise control; synchronous control of multi-motor systems; acoustic/mechanical metamaterials; robotics |
