Prof. Wenjie Xia
- Associate Professor
- Department of Aerospace Engineering
- Iowa State University
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2016
- B.S., Case Western Reserve University, 2011
Honors and Awards
- SNO Emerging Investigator Award, 2025
- ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering, 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, 2023
- ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award, 2023
- Advanced Materials Rising Star Award, 2023
- MSDE Emerging Investigator, 2023
- Sustainable Horizons Pathway Faculty Fellow, 2023
- Innovation in Teaching Award, NDSU, 2023
- NDSU College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award, 2022
- ND-ACES Early Career Faculty Award, 2021
- NIST-MML Accolade for Technical Excellence, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2019
- MGI-CHiMaD (Materials Genome Initiative - Center for Hierarchical Materials Design) Fellowship, 2016
- APS Frank J. Padden Award Finalist, 2016
- Best Paper Award, Midwest Mechanics and Materials (Mid. Mech. Mat.) Workshop, 2016
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, 2015
- Walter Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2011
- CWRU Crag J. Miller Award for "Outstanding Academic Achievement", 2011
Academic Highlights
Dr. Xia’s research focuses on understanding the complex behaviors of hierarchical structural materials via bottom-up multiscale modeling and data-driven approaches. Dr. Xia's research endeavors have been supported by multiple federal/state/local funding agencies, including NSF, ONR, ARO, DOE, NASA, etc. Dr. Xia has authored over 120 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals in multiscale modeling, computational materials, and nanoscale sciences, including Matter, Science Advances, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, etc. Dr. Xia has received multiple honors and awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, SNO Emerging Investigator Award, ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award, ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering, MGI-CHiMaD Fellowship, and Walter P. Murphy Fellowship. His research has been recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through the NIST-MML Accolade for Technical Excellence "for leading the development of a new multiscale modeling approach for glass-forming polymer materials".