Zhigang Suo (Chinese: 锁志刚; born June 15, 1963) is the Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Suo joined the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and established a research group studying the mechanics of materials and structures.
He studied basic processes, including fracture, deformation, polarization, and diffusion, driven by various thermodynamic forces (e.g., stress, electric field, electron wind, chemical potential).
With Teng Li, Suo co-founded iMechanica, the web of mechanics and mechanicians.
[5] He won the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal and the Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators in Applied Mechanics, both from ASME.