Dr?Yikun?Wang BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA
Visiting Academic
Dr Yikun Wang is a?Visiting Academic within the Maritime Engineering Group at the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. She is also working part time in Lloyd's Register Global Technology Centre as an Industrial Fellow. She is also an invited member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress Committee III.1 Ultimate Strength for the 2018 – 2022 period.
Yikun obtained her BSc degree in Dalian University of Technology, China, in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering. She then undertook her MSc studies in the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 and obtained a degree with Distinction in Maritime Engineering Science/Naval Architecture. Subsequently she carried out her PhD research based at the National Centre for Advanced Tribology at 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 and Fluid Structural Interactions Research Group in the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. Yikun started her academic career as a Research Fellow and then a Senior Research Fellow at the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, with a research focus on life cycle and material degradations of marine structures.
Honours and awards:
- Oct 2020 Dean's Award 2020, University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, UK
- Apr 2018 WHC Nicholas Prize for the best paper on a design related subject by the author under the age of thirty, Royal Institution of Naval Architects
- Jan 2017 Selected by the university Research and Enterprise Vice President as one of the five representatives from the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 for the 5th Global Young Scientists Summit, Singapore
- May 2014 Theme Conference Poster Winner, University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 Engineering and the Environment Theme Conference, UK