Jimmy Hsia appointed UIUC Associate Vice Chancellor

Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, Ravi K. Iyer, has announced that mechanical science and engineering professor K. Jimmy Hsia will join the University of Illinois Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for New Initiatives (50%).

Professor Hsia has been on the faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1991.

His research interests include deformation and failure mechanisms of materials at ambient and elevated temperatures, micro/nanomechanics of materials, and nanoscale phenomena in biomaterials.

Professor Hsia is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica and as Guest Editor/Co-Editor for several special issues of Materials Science and Engineering. From 2005-2007 he served as Founding Director of the Nano and Bio Mechanics Program in the Directorate for Engineering at NSF. He is currently Associate Director and co-Director for Education of an NSF Science and Technology Center on Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS), a $25M center through a partnership of MIT, UIUC, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also the Director of Global Enterprise of MicroMechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4), an organization bringing together major institutions across the globe to address problems which intersect the disciplines of engineering, life science, technology and medicine and public health.