Gu, Linxia
Linxia Gu
Professor | College of Engineering and Science: Biomedical Engineering and Science
Department Head | College of Engineering and Science: Biomedical Engineering and Science
Affiliate Faculty | College of Engineering and Science: Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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Dr. Linxia Gu moved to 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 the biomechanics and biomaterials using both computational and experimental methods. The specific application areas include vascular mechanics and indirect traumatic injury to the brain and eye. Her group is particularly interested in developing multi-scale multi-physics models to study and exploit tissue responses and cellular mechanotransduction, and to gain new mechanistic insights into the interplay of mechanics and human body. The multidisciplinary effort has resulted in > 130 journal papers, and $11 million research funding from NIH, NSF, ARO, and NASA. She is an elected fellow of ASME, a recipient of NSF CAREER award and UNL Edgerton Innovation research award.