Jihong Ma is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Vermont. She received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2017 and her B.Eng. in engineering mechanics from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2012. Prior to joining the University of Vermont, she worked as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota and Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2017 to 2020. Her research interests mainly focus on multiscale studies of mechanical metamaterials, the mechanics and transport properties of nanomaterials, and polymer sciences.