Jia Lu

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Researcher, Iowa Technology Institute

Joined the College of Engineering: 2001

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: 

  • ASME

Special Fields of Knowledge: 

  • Biomechanics
  • Continuum mechanics
  • Computational mechanics
  • Finite elasticity

Research Areas:

  • Mechanics of Soft Tissues, Computational Mechanics, Nonlinear Elasticity, and Inverse Problems
Engineering Unit(s)
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Iowa Technology Institute
Jia Lu
jia-lu@uiowa.edu
(319) 335-6405
Biomechanics Lab
Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, University of California-Berkeley, 1999
M.Eng., Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, 1988
B.S., Applied Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, 1985

2137 Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
United States