Minisymposium Presentation

Research group leader in the Institute for Multiscale Simulation. We investigate self-assembly processes and self-organization in nanoscale, soft matter, and particulate systems.

Jihong Ma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Graduate Program of Materials Science at the University of Vermont, USA. Dr. Ma obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (USA) in 2017, and her B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) in 2012. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on computational heat transport in nanomaterials. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, studying topological metamaterials from 2017 to 2019, and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences on soft matter simulations from 2019-2020. Dr. Ma's current research interests broadly lie in the structure-property relationship of materials at multiple scales (from nano- to macro-) via a combination of theoretical analysis, numerical simulations, and experimental characterizations. Her current active research projects include investigations of self-healing polymers, polymeric membranes for carbon capture, organic electronics, quantum dots, dynamics of phononic crystals, and nanoscale thermal and electrical transport funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.