Prof. Yang Jinglei, will talk on \"Recent progress on developing superlight DD laminated Composites\"

Event details Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026 Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: 3269 (3rd Floor Tower Room) Beckman Institute Type: Seminar/Symposium About this event General Events Calendar home Calendar search Share on Facebook Tweet Email add to calendar contact add an event General Events Prof. Yang Jinglei, will talk on "Recent progress on developing superlight DD laminated Composites" Prof. Yang Jinglei, will talk on "Recent progress on developing superlight DD laminated Composites" Aug 20, 2026 3:00 - 4:00 pm 3269 (3rd Floor Tower Room) Beckman Institute Seminar/Symposium Sponsor Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Speaker Prof. Yang Jinglei Contact Darold Spillman E-Mail dspillm2@illinois.edu Views 8 Originating Calendar Beckman and Campus Calendars Prof. Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology School of Engineering, obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees from University of Science and Technology of China in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Composite Materials at Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2006. He was a PostDoc Research Associate in Beckman Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2006 to 2008. He joined Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2016. He received Wilfried Ensinger Award supported by the Scientific Alliance of the University Professors of Polymer Technology (WAK) Germany (2008) and Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Inspirational Teaching Award from NTU (2013). He has been Editorial Board Member of Composites Communications and Recent Patents on Materials Science. Professor Yang’s research interfaces multidisciplinary areas ranging from chemistry, materials engineering to mechanics. He has extensive academic and industrial research experiences in composites and multifunctional materials and completed more than 10 projects supported by government and industrial partners since 2009 in composites design and manufacturing, self-healing materials, energy efficient materials for building, and graphene-based multifunctional materials. His current research interests include using materials genome approach to design and fabricate bioinspired composites and structures and multifunctional materials, and to investigate their mechanical properties. Official event details: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7/33556087