Liuding Yu (from Harbin Engineering Univ.) and Zhiwei Zhang (Beijing Jiao Tong Univ.) joined our team as visiting PhD students last week and will conduct research at Univ. of Auckland for 2 years and 1 year, respectively. Liuding will work on self-adaptive structures for effective vibration suppression and energy harvesting. Zhiwei will focus on harvesting kinetic energy from civil structures.