Yan Chen (mechanical engineer)
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Yan Chen (Chinese: 陈焱) is a Chinese mechanical engineer specializing in reconfigurable mechanisms including rigid origami,[1] metamaterials, and deployable structures. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Tianjin University, where she heads the Motion Structure Laboratory.[2][3]
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.[3]
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.[3]
Book
Chen is the author of the open-access book Motion Structures: Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms (CRC Press, 2011).