Dr Shaoxing Qu is a Changjiang Chair Professor (from Ministry of Education, China) and Distinguished Young Scholar grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China. He serves as the Director of the Key Laboratory of Soft Machines and Smart Devices of Zhejiang Province.

He got his bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China in1997, Master of Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2000, and Ph.D. from UIUC in 2004. After spending two years at Brown University as postdoc, he joined Zhejiang University in 2006 and was promoted to full professor in 2011. He has published more than 180 journal papers.

Dr Qu’s primary research interests include soft materials and soft machines, insect-scalerobots, mechanics of composites, and micro/nano mechanics.