Invited Speaker
Juan Guan
Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, ChinaSpeech Title:
Biography: Dr Juan Guan is a polymer scientist by training. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in polymer science and engineering from Tianjin University (one of China’s oldest and prestigious universities), then obtained a Master’s degree in macromolecular chemistry and physics from Fudan University, and then studied at the University of Oxford for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). After obtaining her degree in 2013, she returned to China and joined Prof. Robert Ritchie’s lab at Beihang University in Beijing. Since 2014, she has been an Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Beihang University. Her research interest focuses on the glass transition behaviour of biopolymers using silk proteins as a model material, design and fabrication of natural silk fibre reinforced composites and the toughening mechanisms in natural polymer based composite materials. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles in Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Matter, Advanced Healthcare Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Acta Biomaterialia, Composites Part A and etc.