• Professor, 2019.12- Present, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

• Associate Professor, 2013.12- 2019.12 , School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

• Lecturer, 2010.3-2013.12, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics,Tongji University, Shanghai, China  

• Visiting student, 2007.9-2009.9, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

• Ph.D., 2006.3-2010.1, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

• M.S., 2004.9- 2006.3, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

• B.S., 2000.9- 2004.7, Department of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, China  

• General council member, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

• General council member, International Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics (ICACM)      

• Committee member, Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics

• Committee member, Youth Work Committee of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

• Committee member, South China Liaison Committee of Computational Mechanics

• Committee member, Youth Work Committee of Shanghai Society of Mechanics  

• Guest editor for special issue on "Advanced Numerical and Computational Methods for Engineering and Applied Mathematical Problems" for the Journal "Mathematics", 2022.5-2023.1.

• Guest editor for special issue on "Advanced Mesh-Based and Particle-Based Numerical Methods for Engineering and Applied Mathematics Problems" for the Journal "Mathematical Problems in Engineering", 2016.4-8.

• 2019 Du Qing-Hua Medal of Computational Methods in Engineering

• 2018 ICACM Young Investigator Award

• 2017 The 8th International Conference on Computational Methods

• 2015 Outstanding Young Excellent Teachers in Tongji University

• 2014 Shanghai "Chenguang Plan"

• 2013 Outstanding Young Scholars Award, by Shanghai Society of Mechanics

• 2012 Outstanding Young Excellent Teachers in Tongji University

• 2010 Young Excellent Talents in Tongji University    

1. September 2015，Visit Polish Academy of Science in Poland for short-term academic communication.

2. July-August 2014, Visit University Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 in France for short-term academic communication.

3. June-August 2013, Visit University of British Columbia in Canada for short-term academic communication.

4. September 2007- September 2009, University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Ph.D student  

Lihua Wang’s research interests focus on computational methods for dynamic and nonlinear mechanics of materials and solids, simulations in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering. Her research activities include development of meshfree methods for materials modeling, large deformation, damage mechanics, dynamics of axially moving systems etc. She has published more than 70 journal papers, and has been invited to deliver lectures in several international and nationalconferences. Wang serves on the review for CMAME, Computational Mechanics, Acta Mechanica, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics and Applied Mathematics and Mechanics etc.