Dr. Li Wen, associate professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation of Beihang University, has been appointed Associate Editor of Soft Robotics.

Soft Robotics (JCR Q1) is a leading international journal in the robotics field with the highest impact factor (IF), having a wide influence all over the world. The journal is interested to promote interdisciplinary research, covering such areas as mechanics, materials, control, chemistry and life sciences. Currently, nine professors from the University of Cambridge, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Yale University, Cornell University, etc., serve as associate editors of the journal, among whom Dr. Wen is the only one from China and he will be mainly responsible for submissions in such directions as bionic soft robotics, drive and sensing of soft robotics, and life-like machines, as well as the launch of special issues of frontier research.

Li Wen is a doctoral supervisor of the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation and an awardee of the National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars. He was a postdoctoral researcher in George Lauder laboratory of Harvard University. He has published more than 70 papers in Science Robotics, Journal of Experimental Biology and other journals or conferences, and relevant research results have been reviewed and reported by Science, Nature and MIT Technology Review. He also serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. His research interests include bionic soft robotics, intelligent material and comparative biomechanics.

Get more information about the journal Soft Robotics：

https://home.liebertpub.com/publications/soft-robotics/616/editorial-board.

Reported by Song Wanheng

Reviewed by Cong Baoqiang

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Lyu Xingyun