邮箱：gao.huajian[at]tsinghua.edu.cn
电话：010-62773988
个人简介
高华健，国际力学、材料和工程科学领域顶级专家，中国科学院外籍院士，美国科学院院士，美国工程院院士，美国人文与科学院院士，德国国家科学院院士，欧洲科学院外籍院士，英国皇家学会院士，清华大学力学与工程交叉院院长。
高华健1982年获西安交通大学固体力学学士学位，1988年获美国哈佛大学工程科学博士学位。1989年至2023年历任美国斯坦福大学教授、德国马普所所长、美国布朗大学讲席教授、新加坡南洋理工大学杰出教授。2024年1月全职回国任教于清华大学。
高华健的研究横跨力学、材料、机械、仿生学等多个领域，主要研究材料、结构和生物系统的宏微观形变和破坏行为。取得的突出成就包括：（1）创立了基于微观机制的应变梯度理论，从微观机理到宏观唯象的多尺度研究引领了近20年来力学的发展范式；（2）揭示了多种新型微纳米结构金属材料的塑性变形机制和断裂机理，为后续材料和力学科学家解决金属材料强韧互斥的难题指明了可行的方向；（3）建立了纳米生物结构的力学理论体系，揭示了生物结构材料中力学性能优异的根本原因。
高华健曾获得过国际固体力学最高荣誉—希尔奖（2013）、国际应用力学最高奖—铁木辛柯奖（2021）、美国机械工程师学会奖章（2023）等国际顶级荣誉，是迄今为止国际力学领域唯一同时获得这三大最高荣誉的力学家和材料学家。高华健还获得诸多荣誉和奖项，其中包括国际工程科学学会的普拉格奖章（2015）、美国机械工程师学会的纳代奖章（2015）、美国土木工程师学会的冯·卡门奖章（2017）和巴赞特奖章（2022）、美国矿物、金属和材料学会的尼克斯奖章（2022）以及国断裂力学大会的乔治·欧文金质奖章（2023）等。
截止到2024年1月，高华健培养了博士生35人，指导了博士后37人。其中，1人当选美国工程院院士（2023），1人当选中国科学院院士（2023），1人获得美国青年科学家与工程师总统奖，5人获美国自然科学基金委的Career Award，10人获中国国家杰出青年基金等资助，7人获中国优秀青年科学基金等资助。
奖项与荣誉
ASME Medal (highest award of ASME and is to recognize “eminently distinguished engineering achievement”), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023
ICF George Irwin Gold Medal (highest award of ICF), The International Congress on Fracture (ICF), 2023
Inaugural Michael P. Païdoussis Medal (highest award of RSC in applied mechanics), Royal Society of Canada (RSC), 2022
Zdenek P. Bazant Medal (highest award of ASCE in failure and damage; only one award every two years), Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2022
William D. Nix Award (highest award of TMS in mechanical behavior of materials), The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), 2022
Timoshenko Medal (highest medal of ASME in the field of applied mechanics), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021
Senior Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Brown University (only one award in physical sciences per year for the whole university), 2018
Theodore von Karman Medal (highest medal of ASCE in engineering mechanics), Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2017
Nadai Medal (highest medal of ASME in engineering materials), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015
William Prager Medal (highest medal of SES), Society of Engineering Science (SES), 2015
Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics (highest international award in mechanics; only one awardee every four years), International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2012
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (highest German award for international scientists), Germany, 2012
Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (highest joint award of Pi Tau Sigma and ASME), Pi Tau Sigma (National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society) and ASME, 2011
Guggenheim Fellowship (for exceptional scholarship or creativity; only 1-2 awards in engineering per year), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995
Solid Mechanics, nanomechanics, biomechanics
Fracture mechanics
Thin film mechanics
Mechanics of Novel Structural and Functional Materials
Mechanics of Healthcare Materials
Mechanics of Energy Materials
论文与影响因子
Publication: >600 papers in refereed journals, including Nature and Nature family journals, Science, Advanced Materials, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, and Proceedings of the Royal Society, as well as important journals in my field (e.g., JMPS, IJSS, JAM).
H-index: >130 (Google Scholar), >100 ISI Web of Science (Researcher ID F-9360-2010)
Total number of citations: >60K (Google Scholar), >43K (ISI Web of Science)
ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), 2015, 2018 (link)
社会兼职
Member, NTU 2025 Steering Committee (top university committee to track and ensure resourcing and execution of the university’s 5 year strategic plan), Nanyang Technological University, 2020-2022
Member, Engineering Panel, the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, 2020-2022
Chair, NRC liaison Committee for Section 10, National Academy of Engineering, 2018-2021
Member, NTU 2025 Task Force, Nanyang Technological University, 2020 Member, NTU Research Council (NTURC), Nanyang Technological University, 2020
Mechanics Engineering Advisory Committee for Curriculum Development and Industrial Liaison, The University of Hong Kong, 2019-2020
Scientific Evaluation Committee of the Helmholtz Society Research Programs in Materials Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2017
Engineering Executive Committee (representing the Solid Mechanics Faculty Group on all matters related to teaching, research and administration in the Brown School of Engineering), Brown University, 2008-2012, 2013-2014, 2015-2019
Advisory Committee, the State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, 2015-
Academic Committee Chair, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronical Information and Electric Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2014-2017.
Rodney Hill Prize Committee, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2014-2015
US Representative to IUTAM General Assembly, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2014
Journal of Applied Mechanics Paper Award Committee, Chair, 2014
Community and Program Committee, School of Engineering, Brown University, 2014-2016
Faculty Grievance Committee, Brown University, 2014-2017
International Advisory Committee, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nanobionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013-
Founding co-Director, Center for Advanced Mechanics and Materials, Tsinghua University, 2013-
University Resources Committee (responsible for recommending the annual operating and capital budget of the whole university to the President), Brown University, 2013-2016
Mechanical Engineering Peer Committee (Member 2013, Vice Chair 2014, Chair 2015), National Academy of Engineering, 2013-2015
Committee on Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty, (Member 2013-2014, Chair 2015), 2013-2016.
DOE/BES Review Committee, Materials Science Program, Sandia National Laboratories, 2013
IUTAM Congress Committee, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2012-2016
Director of Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), Brown University, 2012-2014
Founding Associate Director, International Center for Applied Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2012-
German Excellence Initiative Evaluation Committee, University of Freiburg, 2012
Applied Mechanics Division Executive Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Program Chair 2013, Vice Chair 2014, Chair 2015, Past Chair 2016-2020), 2010-2020
Solid Mechanics Faculty Search Committees (Chair 2010), Brown University, 2008-2014
DOE/NNSA PSAAP Review Committee, Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems (PRISM), Purdue University, 2009
US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2008-2016
Advisor of Guggenheim Fellowships in Engineering, John S. Guggenheim Foundation, 2008-2012
IUTAM Solids Symposium Committee, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2008-2016
Committee on Diversity and Hiring, Brown University, 2007-2008
University Re-accreditation Steering Committee (preparing the re-accreditation of Brown University with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges), Brown University, 2007-2009
Board of Directors (Member 2004-2009, Vice President 2010, President 2011, Past President 2012), Society of Engineering Science, 2004-2012
DOE/BES Review Committee, Materials Science Program, Sandia National Laboratories, 2006
Senior Advisory Board, Garching Supercomputer Center, Max Planck Society, 2001-2006
International Scientific Advisory Board, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002-2014
Scientific Advisory Board, Failure Mechanics Laboratory, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2002-2012
International Scientific Advisory Board, Laboratory for Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001-2011
Scientific Advisory Board, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, 2001-2005
DOE/BES Review Committee, Materials Science Program, Sandia National Laboratories, 2003
DOE/BES Review Committee, Materials Science Program, Los Alamos National Laboratories, 2001
