【概况】

天津大学机械工程学院讲席教授、基金委杰青、英国牛津大学博士、“机构理论与装备设计”教育部重点实验室主任、英国机械工程师学会会士、美国机械工程师学会会士、国际机构学与机器科学联合会宪章委员会主席。研究方向以机构理论为核心，重点研究了机构运动学、空间折展结构、刚性与厚板折纸结构、机构超材料、机械智能与机器人等基础理论，代表作发表在Science、Science Advances、Nature Communications、PNAS、Advanced Materials等。先后获得腾讯科学探索奖、中国青年科技奖、教育部科学研究优秀成果奖自然科学一等奖、以及全国科普工作先进工作者。 Dr. Chen is a Chair Professor at Tianjin University, China. She is the ASME Fellow, Fellow of IMechE. Her research area is motion structures: developed the kinematic theory for the topological tessellation of spatial mechanisms and synthesis methodology for deployable structures; established the kinematic model for rigid origami including the general solution for thick-panel origami; and proposed new concepts of multistable mechanisms, kinematic metamaterials and their modeling. Her representative papers were published in Science, Science advances, Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Materials, and many papers on MMT. She serves as a Special Issues Editor of Thin-walled Structures, an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

【教育背景】

2000.01- 2004.01 英国牛津大学，工程科学系 博士学位 1997. 08- 1999.12 吉林工业大学，理学院工程力学系 工学硕士 1993. 08- 1997.07 吉林工业大学，93级尖子班（理学院工程力学系）工学学士

【学术经历】

2025.01-至今 主任，“机构理论与装备设计” 教育部重点实验室 2014.01-2024.12 常务副主任，“机构理论与装备设计” 教育部重点实验室 2019.01- 至今 讲席教授 天津大学，机械工程学院 2012.10- 2018.12 教授 天津大学，机械工程学院 2005.06- 2012.06 助理教授 新加坡南洋理工大学，机械与宇航工程学院 2004.07- 2005.03 顾问工程师 英国凯里奇计算机有限公司 2004.03- 2004.05 博士后研究助手 英国牛津大学，工程科学系

【讲授课程】

《设计与制造基础2A》 《折纸结构设计》 （工业设计专业）

【教学成果】

2025.06       教育部科学研究优秀成果奖自然科学一等奖 2024.08       全国科普工作先进工作者 2021.03       天津市杰出人才，天津市人才工作领导小组 2020.09       2020年第二届“科学探索奖”（腾讯, XPLORER-2020-1035） 2020.10       第十六届中国青年科技奖 (中国科协) 2020.06       国务院政府特殊津贴专家 2020.01       2019年全国三八红旗手 2018.10       国家自然科学基金委杰出青年基金 2014.10       国家自然科学基金委优秀青年基金

【研究方向】

可动结构、机构运动学、可展结构、折纸工程学、机构超材料、机械智能、机器人。

【学术兼职】

2024.11-2027.11 教育部中小学科学教育专家委员会委员 2024-2028 中国材料研究学会超材料学会常务理事 2024.03-至今 美国机械工程师学会会士(ASME Fellow) 2024-2027 国际机构学和机器科学联合会International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) 宪章委员会主席 2021-至今 中国机械工程学会第十二届理事会理事，青年工作委员会委员，国际交流工作委员会委员 2016-2024 国际机构学和机器科学联合会International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) 中国委员会副主席 2015-至今 英国机械工程师学会会士(Fellow of IMechE, FIMechE) ，Institution of Mechanical Engineers UK 2012-至今 国际机构学和机器科学联合会 (IFToMM) 机构与控制技术委员会委员 2008-至今 英国皇家宪章特许终身工程师(CEng)，Engineering Council UK 2025- 国际学术期刊International Journal of Mechanical Sciences，Editorial board member 2024- 国际学术期刊Thin-walled Structures (TWST)，特刊主编（Special Issues Editor，负责组织期刊的所有特刊） 2023- 国际学术期刊Transactions of ASME, Journal of Mechanical Design，副主编 2023-2024 国际学术期刊International Journal of Mechanical Engineering，特刊 Guest Editor 2024 大会主席 The 24th IFToMM China International Conference on Mechanism and Machine, Science & Engineering (IFToMM CCMMS 2024), August 12 - 14, 2024, Tianjin, China 2023 大会主席 International Symposium on Structures and Materials Inspired by Origami 2023.10.13-15, Shaoxing, China 2018 大会副主席 The 7th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (7OSME), 5-7 September 2018, Oxford, UK 2017 大会主席 The Second International Workshop on Origami Engineering, 2017.11.6-8, Tianjin, China

【科研项目及成果】

2024.01-2028.12 国家自然科学基金委员会，重点国际(地区)合作研究项目，主持 2023.11-2026.10 国家重点研发计划，课题负责人 2021.01- 2025.12 国家自然科学基金委员会，重点项目，主持 2019.12-2021.12 国家重点研发计划，课题负责人 2019.01- 2023.12 国家自然科学基金委员会，杰出青年项目，主持 2018.01- 2023.12 国家自然科学基金委员会，创新研究群体项目，主要参与 2015.01-2017.12 国家自然科学基金委员会，优秀青年科学基金项目，主持 2014.04- 2017.03 科技部国际科技合作与交流专项，主持 2013.01- 2017.12 国家自然科学基金委员会，重大项目，参与 2013.01- 2016.12 国家自然科学基金委员会，面上项目，主持

【代表性论著】

专著 You Z and Chen Y, Motion Structures: Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 978-0-415-55489-3, 2011.   期刊论文 1.Weiqi Liu#, Qun Ren#, Yunjie Wang, Zhuang Zhang, Xiuyu Wang, Yongshan Liang, Hao Huang, Jiayao Ma, Hanqing Jiang*, Yan Chen*. Reconfigurable modular origami for tunable 2D symmetry groups. Science Advances, 2025, 11, eady3812. (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady3812) 2.Kaili Xi#, Xiaoyi Jiang#, Dechen Zhao, Guimin Chen, Jiayao Ma*, Yan Chen*. Design and Visualization of a Hierarchical Metamaterial with Tunable Stiffness. Research, 2025, 8:0874. ( https://doi.org/10.34133/research.0874) 3.Yuanqing Gu, Guowu Wei, Chuhan Xu, Yan Chen*. Kirigami Archimedean polyhedrons with one-degree of freedom radial transformation. Small Structures. 2025: e202500343. ( https://doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202500343) 4.Kaili Xi, Jingsong Wei, Xiao Zhang*, Jiayao Ma, Zhong You, Changqing Chen, Yan Chen*. A kinematically Bifurcated Metamaterial for Integrated Logic Operation and Computing. Advanced Science. 2025, e09829. ( https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202509829) 5.Mengyue Li#, Jiayao Ma#, Xiao-Lei Tang, Yan-Feng Wang*, Yan Chen *. Double-Tubular Origami Metamaterials with Independently Programmable and Tunable Mechanical and Acoustic Properties. Composites Part B: Engineering. 2025, 112804. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2025.112804) 6.Chuhan Xu#, Jiayao Ma#, Lei Fu, Xinmeng Liu, Lei Zhang*, Yan Chen *. An Ultra-Fast Rolling Double-Helical Robot Driven by Constant Humidity. Advanced Science. 2025, 2500577. ( https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202500577) 7.Yang X#, Zhao W#, Ma J#, Fu L, Liu M, Xu C, Hu Z, Lv J, Zhang L*, Chen Y*. Threefold Möbius Machine. Advanced Functional Materials. 2025, 202420815. ( https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202420815) 8.Gu Y#, Wei Z#, Wei G, You Z, Ma J*, Chen Y*. Kirigami-inspired three-dimensional metamaterials with programmable isotropic and orthotropic thermal expansion. Advanced Materials. 2024, 2411232. ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202411232) 9.Chai S, Hu Z, Chen Y, You Z, Ma J*. Programmable multi-stability of curved-crease origami structures with travelling folds. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2024, 193, 105877. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105877) 10.Wang C, Guo H*, Liu R, Deng Z, Chen Y, You Z*. Reconfigurable Origami-inspired Multistable Metamorphous Structures. Science Advances. 2024, 10(22), eadk8662. ( https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk8662) 11.Li M#, Chen H#, Ma J*, Chen Y*. An origami metamaterial with distinct mechanical properties in three orthotropic directions. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 2024, 283: 109713. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109713) 12.Zhang Y#, Zhang X#, Li M, Chen Y*. The rigid and flat-foldable kirigami cubes. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 2024, 282: 109605. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109605) 13.Liu W, Cao S, Chen Y*. Mountain-valley crease reconfiguration of 4-crease origami vertices and tessellations. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024, 273, 109224. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109224) 14.Xi K#, Chai S#, Ma J*, Chen Y*. Multi-Stability of the Extensible Origami Structures. Advanced Science, 2023, 10(29), 2303454. ( https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202303454) 15.Hu Z#, Wei Z#, Wang K, Chen Y*, Zhu R*, Huang G, Hu G. Engineering zero modes in transformable mechanical metamaterials. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 1266. ( https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36975-2) 16.Ma J#, Zang S#, Chen Y*, You Z*. The tessellation rule and properties programming of origami metasheets built with a mixture of rigid and non-rigid square-twist patterns. Engineering, 2022, 17: 82-92. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2022.02.015) 17.Fu L, Zhao W, Ma J, Yang M, Liu X, Zhang L*, Chen Y*. A Humidity-Powered Soft Robot with Fast Rolling Locomotion. Research, 2022, 2022: 9832901. ( https://doi.org/10.34133/2022/9832901) 18.Ma J, Chai S, Chen Y*. Geometric design, deformation mode, and energy absorption of patterned thin-walled structures. Mechanics of Materials, 2022, 168: 104269. ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2022.104269) 19.Zhang X, Ma J, Li M, You Z, Wang X, Luo Y, Ma K, Chen Y*. Kirigami-based metastructures with programmable multistability, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, 119(11): e2117649119. ( https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117649119) 20.Liu W, Jiang H, Chen Y*. 3D programmable metamaterials based on reconfigurable mechanism modules. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32(9): 2109865. ( https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202109865) 21.Zhang X#, Nie R#, Chen Y*, He B*. Deployable structures: structural design and static/dynamic analysis, Journal of Elasticity, 2021, 146: 199–235. ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-021-09860-6) 22.Ma J, Dai H, Chai S, Chen Y*. Energy absorption of sandwich structures with a kirigami-inspired pyramid foldcore under quasi-static compression and shear. Materials & Design, 2021, 206: 109808. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109808) 23.Gu Y, Wei G*, Chen Y*. Thick-panel origami cube. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2021, 164: 104411.  (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2021.104411) 24.Ma J#, Zang S#, Feng H, Chen Y*, You Z. Theoretical characterization of a non-rigid-foldable square-twist origami for property programmability. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021, 189: 105981. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.105981) 25.Feng H, Peng R, Zang S, Ma J, Chen Y*. Rigid foldability and mountain-valley crease assignments of square-twist origami pattern. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020, 152: 103947. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2020.103947) 26.Ma J, Feng H, Chen Y*, Hou D, You Z*. Folding of Tubular Waterbomb. Research, 2020, 2020, 1735081. (https://doi.org/10.34133/2020/1735081) 27.Mukhopadhyay T, Ma J, Feng H, Hou D, Gattas J, Chen Y*, You Z*. Programmable stiffness and shape modulation in origami materials: Emergence of a distant actuation feature. Applied Materials Today, 2020, 19, 100537. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2019.100537) 28.Chen Y, Lv W, Peng R, Wei G*. Mobile assemblies of four-spherical-4R-integrated linkages and the associated four-crease-integrated rigid origami patterns. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2019, 142, 103613. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2019.103613) 29.Zhang X, Chen Y*. The diamond thick-panel origami and the corresponding mobile assemblies of plane-symmetric Bricard linkages. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2018, 130, 585-604. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2018.09.005) 30.Feng H, Peng R, Ma J, Chen Y*. Rigid foldability of generalized triangle twist origami pattern and its derived 6R linkages. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2018, 10(5), 051003-051003-13. (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4040439) 31.Feng H, Ma J, Chen Y*, You Z. Twist of tubular mechanical metamaterials based on waterbomb origami. Scientific Reports, 2018, 8(1), 9522. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27877-1) 32.Ma J, Song J, Chen Y*. An Origami-inspired Structure with Graded Stiffness. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2018, 136, 134–142. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2017.12.026) 33.Chen Y, Lv W, Li J, You Z*. An extended family of rigidly foldable origami tubes. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2017, 9(2), 021002. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4035559) 34.Feng H, Chen Y*, Dai Jian S, Gogu G. Kinematic study of the general plane-symmetric Bricard linkage and its bifurcation variations. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2017, 116, 89–104. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2017.05.019) 35.Liu X, Gattas J M, Chen Y*. One-DOF Superimposed Rigid Origami with Multiple States. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 36883. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep36883) 36.Ma J, Hou D, Chen Y*, You Z. Quasi-static axial crushing of thin-walled tubes with a kite-shape rigid origami pattern: numerical simulation. Thin-Walled Structures, 2016, 100, 38-47. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2015.11.023) 37.Liu S, Lv W, Chen Y*, Lu G X. Deployable prismatic structures with rigid origami patterns. Trans. ASME. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2015, 8(3), 031002. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4031953) 38.Chen Y, Feng H, Ma J, Peng R, You Z*. Symmetric waterbomb origami. Proc. R. Soc. A , 2016, 472, 20150846. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0846) (Journal cover paper) 39.Chen Y, Peng R, You Z, Origami of thick panels, Science, 349 (2015) 396-400. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aab2870) 40.Song C Y, Feng H, Chen Y*, Chen I-M, Kang R. Reconfigurable mechanism generated from the network of Bennett linkages. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2015, 88, 49-62. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2015.02.003) 41.Song C Y, Chen Y*，Chen I-M. A 6R Linkage Reconfigurable between the Line-symmetric Bricard Linkage and the Bennett Linkage. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2013, 70, 278-292. ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2013.07.013 ) 42.Chen Y*, Chai W H. Bifurcation of a special line and plane symmetric Bricard linkage. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2011, 46(4), 515-533. ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2010.11.015 ) 43.Chen Y, You Z*. Two-fold Symmetrical 6R Foldable Frame and its Bifurcations. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2009, 46(25-26), 4504-4514. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2009.09.012 ) 44.Liu S Y, Chen Y*. Myard linkage and its mobile assemblies. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2009, 44(10), 1950-1963. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2009.05.001 ) 45.Chen Y, You Z*. An extended Myard linkage and its derived 6R linkage. Trans. ASME. Journal of Mechanical Design, 2008, 130(5). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2885506 ) 46.Chen Y, You Z*. On mobile assemblies of Bennett linkages. Proceedings of the Royal Society A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences), 2008, 464(2093) 1275-1293. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2007.0188 ) 47.Chen Y, You Z*. Spatial 6R linkages based on the combination of two Goldberg 5R linkages. Mechanism and Machine Theory 2007, 42(11), 1484-1498. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2006.12.008 ) 48.Chen Y, You Z*. Square deployable frame for space application: Part I: Theory. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2006, 220(4), 347–354. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/09544100JAERO68) 49.Chen Y, You Z*. Mobile assemblies based on the Bennett linkage. Proceedings of the Royal Society A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences), 2005, 461, 1229 – 1245. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2004.1383) 50.Chen Y, You Z, Tarnai T*. Threefold-symmetric Bricard linkages for Deployable Structures. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2005, 42 (8) 2287-2301. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2004.09.014 )