Guoxing Lu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering from Jilin University, a Master’s degree from Cranfield University, UK, and a PhD in Structural Mechanics from the University of Cambridge. He currently serves as a Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University and President of the International Society of Impact Engineering. Previously, he held positions as Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Founding Director of the Impact Engineering Laboratory; Associate Dean of the School of Engineering; and Head of the Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering. He also served as a tenured faculty member and Assistant Dean at the School of Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include energy absorption of structures and materials, mechanical behavior of materials under high strain rates, impact dynamics, origami structures and metamaterials, and applications of machine learning. He has published over 340 international journal papers and authored the world’s first comprehensive monograph on energy absorption of materials and structures (Energy Absorption of Materials and Structures, co-authored with Tongxi Yu, Elsevier, 2003; Chinese edition: Energy Absorption of Structures and Materials, Chemical Industry Press, 2006), as well as a Chinese monograph (Energy Absorption—Mechanical Behavior and Plastic Analysis of Structures and Materials, co-authored with Tongxi Yu and Xiong Zhang, Science Press, 2019). His publications have been cited more than 20,000 times, with an H-index of 73. He has been recognized as one of the world’s top 0.05% most influential scientists in the ScholarGPS « Last Five Years » ranking (2024) and is listed among the top 2% most-cited scientists globally by Stanford University.