Short CV
Morning bells from the Xian Wild-Goose Pagoda, by Mr. G.S. Luo.
I was born in Xi'an,
the beautiful ancient capital of China. I grew up in an artistic family with my father and brothers who specialized in Chinese water painting. Having realized that my talent in drawing is not half as good
as my brothers', I switched my interests to Mathematics and Physics. In 1978 after winning the Runner up in the
Xi'an High School Mathematics Competition, I accepted the unconditional offer from
Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), one of a top Universities in China. After obtaining my BEng and MSc in Solid Mechanics, I accepted a
lectureship at XTJU in 1985, and researched on model analysis of structures.
Between 1987-1990, I did my PhD study on blood flow in arteries. During this period, I god funding from the World Bank, which sponsored my 14 months' visit to the UK at the Department of Medical Physics & Clinical
Engineering at the University of Sheffield. This gave me a chance to
perform some experiments on fluid mechanics and was exposed to the surgeon's view of blood flow problems.
Returned to China in 1988, I started to model blood flow in arterial models with
stenosis (a cross-sectional area constriction resulting
from atherosclerosis) using numerical methods, and investigated the relation between the geometry of the
stenosis and the wall shear stress. In 1990, I obtained my Ph.D with Distinction,
and was awarded the "Tang ZhaoQian Scholarship" of Xi'an Jiaotong University.
In 1992, I took a post-doc RA position with Professor
T J Pedley, FRS, and worked on fluid flow in collapsible tubes. Flow in
collapsible tubes causes many interesting phenomena, such as flow limitation,
and self-excited oscillations. From 1997 to 2000, I was a lecturer at the Department of Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. From 2000-2005,
I took a lecturership/senior lectureship at the University of Sheffield, Department of Mechanical Engineering. I moved to the University of Glasgow in 2005, and worked at the School Mathematics and Statistics since. I was promoted as a Reader in 2006, and a
Professor in 2008.
Apart from work, I enjoy reading, walking, running, cycling, badminton, yoga, cooking, and traveling.
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