Nanshu Lu

Nanshu Lu is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin where she leads the Lu Research Group in the department of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. Lu is recognized for her work on the integration of electronics into stretchable materials compatible with human tissue, for which she was named one of the Top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2012.

Education Nanshu Lu attended Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, graduating with a bachelor's degree in engineering mechanics in 2005. Lu earned her master's degree in applied physics in 2006 and her doctoral degree in 2009, both from Harvard University, at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). For her doctorate, she studied solid mechanics with Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak. She did postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow from 2009 to 2011, working with John A. Rogers.

Career

Lu joined the Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) department at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. There she leads the Lu Research Group in studying stretchable materials with bio-integrated electronics.

Awards 2015, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award 2015, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award 2014, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award 2014, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation 2013, NetExplo Grand Prix, Paris, France 2012, Top 35 innovators under the age of 35, MIT Technology Review 2009, Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow