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Chinese mechanical engineer
Yan Chen
(
Chinese
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) is a Chinese mechanical engineer specializing in reconfigurable mechanisms including
rigid origami
,
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metamaterials
, and
deployable structures
. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at
Tianjin University
, where she heads the Motion Structure Laboratory.
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Education and career
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Chen studied engineering at the
Jilin University of Technology
(now part of Jilin University), earning a bachelor's degree in 1997 and a bachelor's degree in 1999. She went to the
University of Oxford
for doctoral study in engineering science, completing a doctorate (D.Phil.) in 2004.
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After working in industry in England for a year, she returned to China in 2005 as an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at
Nanyang Technological University
. She moved to her present position as a full professor at Tianjin University in 2012.
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Book
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Chen is the author of the open-access book
Motion Structures: Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms
(CRC Press, 2011).
Recognition
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Chen was named as one of the 2012 New Century Outstanding Talents of the Ministry of Education, and as one of the 2016 Youth Science and Technology Innovation Leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
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She was elected as a
Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
in 2015.
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References
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External links
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Flat folding
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Strip folding
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3d structures
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Polyhedra
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People
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