Yang Liu's CV

Education

• Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, July 2015
• B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Zhengzhou University, 2010

Work experience

• September 2023: Marie-Curie Fellow
  • Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
  • Supervisor: Prof. Alain Goriely FRS, Prof. Dominic Vella
• July 2019: Associate Professor
  • Department of Mechanics, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University
• November 2015: Lecturer
  • Department of Mechanics, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University

Selected Publications

1. Tao Zhang, Luis Dorfmann, Yang Liu. Buckling of residually stressed cylindrical tubes under compression. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2025, 321, 113578.
2. Yang Liu, Rui-Cheng Liu, Wanyu Ma and Alain Goriely. Post-buckling of fiber-reinforced soft tissues. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2025, 203, 106220.
3. Yang Liu, Alain Goriely, L. Angela Mihai. Elephant trunk wrinkles: A mathematical model of function and form. Nonlinearity. 2025, 38(3), 035004.
4. Yang Liu, Qianqian Ji and Alain Goriely. Surface wrinkling of a hyperelastic half-space coated by a liquid crystal elastomer film. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2024, 299, 112895.
5. Rui-Cheng Liu, Yang Liu and Alain Goriely. Surface wrinkling of a film coated to a graded substrate. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2024, 186, 105603.
6. Yang Liu, Xiang Yu and Luis Dorfmann. Reduced model and nonlinear analysis of localized instabilities of residually stressed cylinders under axial stretch. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. 2024, 29(9), 1879–1899.
7. Yang Liu. Higher order solution to the Euler buckling threshold for compressible hyperelastic bilayers. Acta Mechanica Sinica. 2023, 39(8), 422379.
8. Yang Liu, Tian Liang, Yuxin Fu, Yu-Xin Xie and Yue-Sheng Wang. A novel buckling pattern in periodically porous elastomers with applications to elastic wave regulations. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2022, 54, 101781.
9. Rui-Cheng Liu, Yang Liu and Zongxi Cai. Influence of the growth gradient on surface wrinkling and pattern transition in growing tubular tissues. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2021, 477(2254), 20210441.
10. Yang Liu, Wendi Ma and Hui-Hui Dai. On a consistent finite-strain plate model of nematic liquid crystal elastomers. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2020, 145, 104169. <!–11. Yang Liu, Yang Ye, Ali Althobaiti and Yu-Xin Xie. Prevention of localized bulging in an inflated bilayer tube. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 2019, 153–154, 359–368.
11. Lishuai Jin, Yang Liu and Zongxi Cai. Post-buckling analysis on growing tubular tissues: A semi-analytical approach and imperfection sensitivity. International Journal of Solids and structures. 2019, 162, 121–134.–>

Selected Talks

• 12th European Solid Mechanics Conference, July 6-11, 2025, Lyon, France. Title: Post-buckling of fiber-reinforced materials.
• Applied Mathematics Seminar, Keele University, April 2, 2025, Keele, UK. Title: Membrane wrinkling and collective cell behaviours.
• “Nonlinear Elasticity and All That” On the occasion of Giuseppe Saccomandi’s 60th birthday, November 19-22, 2024, Bari, Italy. Title: Buckling and post-buckling of fiber-reinforced tissues.
• Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus University, November 1, 2024, Aarhus, Denmark. Title: A mechanical model for elephant trunk wrinkles.
• Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminars, Cardiff University, October 1, 2024, Cardiff, UK. Title: Surface wrinkling in film/substrate bilayers.
• 2024 SES Annual Technical Meeting, August 20-23, 2024, Hangzhou, China. Title: Localized instabilities of a residually stressed solid cylinder under stretch.
• 2024 SES Annual Technical Meeting, August 20-23, 2024, Hangzhou, China. Title: Instabilities of film/substrate bilayers.
• International Workshop on “The coupled nonlinear continuum theory horizon”, July 1-5, 2024, Castro Urdiales, Spain. Title: Surface instabilities of a half-space coated by a liquid crystal elastomer film.

Awards

• Mechanics of Materials Young Investigator Award, 2024.
• Selected as a Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation at Tianjin University, 2023.
• First Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award (9/12), 2023.
• Silver Medal in The 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (2/10), 2023.
• Excellent Poster Award of the 1st Interdisciplinary Research Forum on the Frontiers of Mechanics, 2023.
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, 2023.
• First Prize of Teaching Achievement Award of Tianjin City (11/15), 2022.
• Second Prize of Graduate Education and Teaching Achievement Award of Tianjin University (3/8), 2022.
• ACRI “YOUNG INVESTIGATOR TRAINING PROGRAM 2018” fellowship, 2019.
• Zhi-Kang Shen Award of Tianjin University, 2018.

Teaching

• 2024-2025, Oriel College, University of Oxford, Tutor, Prelims Dynamics.
• March 2021-July 2023, Tianjin University, Undergraduate course: Mechanics of Materials.
• March 2021-present,Tianjin University, Undergraduate course: Advanced Elasticity.
• September 2018-December 2019, Tianjin University, Undergraduate course: Engineering Mechanics.
• June 2016-July 2023. Postgraduate course: Continuum Mechanics (in English).
• September 2011-August 2014, City University of Hong Kong, Teaching Assistant (in English), including tutorial lectures and assignments grading.

Grants

• Pattern Formation in Soft Materials: Reduced Models and Non-linear Analysis (SOFT-PATTERN). Marie Słkodowska-Curie fellowship, UKRI, 2023, PI.
• Research on force/thermal/light-induced deformation of liquid crystal elastomers based on incremental theory and finite-strain plate/shell models. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023, PI.
• Accurate control of bending and twisting of liquid crystal elastomers with applications to mechanical metamaterial designin. Tianjin University, 2023, PI.
• Intelligent analysis of cutterhead and digital tunnelling technique. China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., LTD. 2022, PI.
• Post-buckling analysis of soft materials with applications to elastic wave regulations. Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020, PI.
• Stability and deformation analysis of thin liquid crystal elastomer film and tube under mechanical loads. Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016, PI.