Rongguang Xu - Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Rong-Guang Xu is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UTMB, jointly supported by Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He received his BS degree in Applied Physics from Wuhan University and earned his PhD degree in mechanical engineering at The George Washington University. His research specialty lies in multiscale computational physics. materials science and mechanics, especially in nanotribology, nanoconfinement, nanoindentation, computational nanomedicine, membrane-fouling in water treatment, and 2D piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting. His previous and current studies have opened up new avenues to study problems and resulted in several important follow-up investigations in the related field. He has published about 30 journal papers including PNAS, Nano Energy, Journal of Membrane Science, Langmuir, Journal of Chemical Physics, and Journal of Applied Physics.

At UTMB, Dr. Xu is trying to understand and predict the mechanobiology of cells and molecules in the vascular system, by employing a variety of computational methods, with a combination of molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, and continuum simulations. His research is focused on (1) stenosis blood flow modeling, (2) integrin binding kinetics model, and (3) the mechanisms underlying mechanobiological molecular behaviors, especially the interaction between GPIbalpha and VWFA1.