Jia Lu, PhD

Director, Biomechanics Lab
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jia Lu is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a researcher at the Iowa Technology Institute. Professor Lu is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

Mission Areas: Biotechnology, Human Modeling and Simulation

Lab: Biomechanics Lab

Publications: Google Scholar

Research areas
  • Mechanics of soft tissues
  • Computational mechanics
  • Nonlinear elasticity
  • Inverse problems
Jia Lu
jia-lu@uiowa.edu
(319) 335-6405
PhD, Solid Mechanics, University of California, Berkeley
M.Eng, Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University
BS, Applied Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Aeronautics (now Beihang University)