Duan Huiling

Duan Huiling (Chinese: 段慧玲) is a Chinese mechanical engineer, specializing in interface mechanics, the interactions between fluids and solids, and the surface properties and elasticity of nanoscale structures.

After returning to graduate study at Peking University, she completed a Ph.D. in solid mechanics in 2005.

[2] She was a postdoctoral researcher at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, supported by a Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, and at the Institute of Nanotechnology of the Karlsruhe Research Center (FZK-INT, now part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany, supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

[2] Duan was the 2009 recipient of the Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,[2] which elected her as a Fellow in 2020.

[3] She is also a recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholars Award of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2012), and was named a National Outstanding Young Female Scientist of China (2014) and National Outstanding Young Scholar of China (2015).