Dr. Zhong Zhong

Biography

Professor Zhong obtained Bachelor and Master degrees in engineering mechanics from Shanghai Jiaotong University and Dalian University of Technology, respectively. He joined the University of Cambridge, completing his PhD in the Department of Engineering in 1994 under the supervision of Professor Sergio Pellegrino. He researched deployable structures for aerospace applications. After Cambridge, he continued as a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, working on deployable structures. In 1997, he became an EPSRC Advanced Fellow in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. In 1998, he was appointed lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, where he has remained. His research interests focus on the design and realization of novel deployable origami structures, which are unconventional structures capable of large shape changes. Areas impacted by his work include retractable roofs, space antennas, solar arrays, energy-absorbing structures, and medical devices used in minimally invasive surgery. Professor Zhong's work was showcased at the Science Day Exhibition at Buckingham Palace in 2007, organized by the Royal Society. He has developed a flow diversion stent for treating cerebral aneurysms and published significant research on thick-panel origami in SCIENCE in 2015. He leads the Special Structures Group at Oxford.

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