Dr. Zhou is a professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received both his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Tsinghua University, China and his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include mechanics of materials, modeling and simulation, and additive manufacturing/3D printing. He conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, USA for three years. He was a visiting scholar in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, USA for two months. Dr. Zhou has founded the journal Smart Manufacturing and serves as its Editor-in-Chief. He has also co-founded Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics and serves as its Co-Editor-in-Chief. In addition, he serves as an associate editor/editorial board member of several other international journals including Mechanics Research Communications, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, Friction, International Journal of Fatigue, Acta Mechanica, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, and International Journal of Applied Mechanics.

Micro/nano mechanics of materials; Contact mechanics and tribology; Modelling and design of sustainable materials; Additive manufacturing

C. Cai, W. S. Tey, J. Chen, W. Zhu, X. Liu, T. Liu, L. Zhao, K. Zhou. (2021). Comparative study on 3D printing of polyamide 12 by selective laser sintering and multi jet fusion. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 288, pp.116882-1–11. W. Li, N. Nguyen-Thanh, J. Huang and K. Zhou. (2020). Adaptive analysis of crack propagation in thin-shell structures via an isogeometric-meshfree moving least-squares approach. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 262, pp. 112613-1–26. K. Tang, K. Zhou. (2020). Water desalination by flow-electrode capacitive deionization in over limiting current regimes. Environmental Science & Technology, 54, pp.5853–5863. W. Zhang, R. Li, H. Zheng, J. Bao, Y. -J. Tang, K. Zhou. (2020). Laser-assisted printing of electrodes using metal–organic frameworks for micro-supercapacitors. Advanced Functional Materials, pp.2009057-1–9. Y. Wang, Y. -J. Tang, K. Zhou. (2019). Self-adjusting activity induced by intrinsic reaction intermediate in Fe–N–C single-atom catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(36), 14115-14119.