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Jihong Ma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Vermont (UVM), affiliated with the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. She joined UVM in 2020 and holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2017) and a B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Xi'an Jiaotong University (2012). Her research focuses on structure-property relationships in materials across scales, combining theoretical analysis, simulations, and experiments to explore self-healing polymers, carbon capture membranes, organic electronics, quantum dots, phononic crystals, and nanoscale thermal/electrical transport. She has secured funding from the NSF, DOE, NASA, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
Dr. Ma's expertise includes condensed matter theories, wave dynamics, and atomistic simulations. She teaches courses in Advanced Heat Transfer (ME 6990) and Materials Engineering (ME 2110). Her work has been recognized through awards such as the 2023 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship and the NSF EPSCoR Research Fellowship (2022–2024). She leads the Laboratory for Advanced Materials and collaborates with institutions like Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Her recent publications highlight contributions to phononic metamaterials, nanoscale thermal transport, and topological edge states. Key projects include developing topological phononic crystals for wave control and investigating grain boundary effects in graphene nanoribbons.
