Singapore

Associate Professor

Deputy Head at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore

Vincent Tan is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. After obtaining his BEng and MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, he pursued his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, USA.

Currently, his research interests are in computational homogenization and multiscale modelling, computational modelling, bioinspired composites, failure of composite materials, impact mechanics and ballistics. His research has been funded by both industrial and research agency grants, including US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Defence Science Organization, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defence, Vestas, and Airbus.

He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Composites Part B, Mechanics of Materials, and International Journal of Applied Mechanics. He is a Vice President and Fellow of the Association for Computational Mechanics (Singapore), and is a General Council Member of both the International Association of Computational Mechanics and Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics.

He co-chaired the 23rd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials in Singapore and has served on the scientific advisory committees of several international conferences.

A winner of multiple teaching awards at both the Faculty and University levels, he teaches modules on mechanics, mathematics, and numerical methods.

Title: Concurrently accounting for material microstructure in structural finite element analysis