Prof. Linxia Gu

Dr. Linxia Gu moved to Florida for a position at the Florida Institute of Technology in August 2019. Prior to this, she was a professor of the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she rose through the ranks of assistant professor, associate professor with tenure, and professor. She received her Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida in December 2004. Dr. Gu’s research expertise lies in biomechanics and biomaterials, using both computational and experimental methods. The specific application areas include vascular mechanics and indirect traumatic injury to the brain and eyes. Her group is particularly interested in developing multiscale, multiphysics models to study and exploit tissue responses and cellular mechanotransduction, and to gain new mechanistic insights into the interplay of mechanics and the human body. The multidisciplinary effort has resulted in over 90 journal papers and $10 million in research funding from NIH, NSF, ARO, and NASA. She is an elected fellow of ASME, a the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the UNL Edgerton Innovation research award.