Van C. Mow

Van C. Mow (1939 b, Traditional Chinese: 毛昭憲), is one of the earliest researchers in the field of biomechanics. His father was Mow Pang Tzu, a high ranking general in the National Chinese Airforce, who was at the center of a widely covered embezzlement scandal that shook postwar US-Taiwan relationships. Van C. Mow has published over 315 full-length peer-reviewed, archival papers and book chapters, has delivered over 450 podium presentations at bioengineering meetings, and he has delivered over 450 invited seminars, keynote, plenary and distinguished named lectures in orthopaedic biomechanics. According to Google Scholar, his papers have been cited over 33,500 times, and he has an h-index of 100 as of October 5, 2015. His work on the biphasic and triphasic theories for soft-hydrated and charged biological tissues, coauthored with W.M. Lai, are two of the most highly cited biomechanics papers in the world. Among Mow's many activities, he was the first PhD to be elected President of the Orthopaedic Research Society and from 2000 to 2011 was the founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University.