Principal Investigator

Wenjie Xia, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor                                                            Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering    Materials and Nanotechnology                                      Biomedical Engineering                                                      North Dakota State University

Email: wenjie.xia [at] ndsu.edu   Tel: (701)-231-5648

About Dr. Wenjie Xia: Dr. Xia obtained his Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University (2016) and his B.S. in Civil Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (2011). Prior to joining NDSU as an assistant professor in 2018, he worked at National Institute of Standards and Technology as an MGI-CHiMaD (Material Genome Initiative – Center for Hierarchical Materials Design) Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Xia has received the Walter P. Murphy Fellowship and been selected as the finalist for the American Physical Society Frank J. Padden Jr. Award for excellence in graduate polymer research. He has won the Best Paper Award in the 2^nd Annual Midwest Workshop on Mechanics of Materials and Structures. He has also been a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for outstanding students abroad in 2015.

Students

Yuyang Chen – Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mr. Chen is currently a senior-year undergrad student in the CEE Department at NDSU.