Hejun Du's Biography

Hejun Du, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, NTU

Dr Du obtained his BEng and MEng from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 1983 and 1986, respectively. Subsequently, he lectured there until 1988 before he left for Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK for his PhD study. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College in 1991 and joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore immediately after that.

Dr Du is currently an associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU. He also served as the Head of Engineering Mechanics Division in the school from 2008 to 2011. His research interests are mainly involved in three areas: 1) MEMS, thin films and microfluidics; 2) smart materials and their applications; and 3) numerical and computational methods for engineering applications. He has obtained over 15 research grants from various research funding agencies in the past, totaling more than S$10 million as PI or Co-PI. He has published over 200 international refereed journal papers, which are well cited over 3400 times in the SCI with a H-Index of 33 by Oct 2014.