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 realised that my talent in drawing is not half as good
as my brothers', I turned 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, one of a top Universities in China.
There I spent seven years and obtained my BEng and MSc in Solid and Applied Mechanics. I was then offered a
lecturership by the University in 1985. My research was on sub-model analysis
of structures (Xu & Luo 1986, 1987).
Since 1987, I became increasingly interested in biomechanics, and started my PhD
study on blood flow in arteries while working part time as a lecturer.
That year sponsored by the World Bank I visited
the Department of Medical Physics & Clinical
Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the UK for 14 months. 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 (Luo & Kuang, 1990, 1991, 1992a). I was also
interested in the non-Newtonian behaviour of the blood (Luo & Kuang, 1992b)
and together with Professor Z B Kuang, proposed a new constitutive model for
blood (Luo & Kuang, 1992c). In 1990, I obtained my Ph.D, and was awarded the "Tang
ZhaoQian Scholarship" of Xi'an Jiaotong University. In 1992, I became an editor of
the Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics.
I returned to the UK in 1992 and worked as a post-doc RA with
Professor
T J Pedley, FRS, on fluid flow in collapsible tubes. Flow in
collapsible tubes causes many interesting phenomena, such as flow limitation,
and self-excited oscillations. The mechanisms of these phenomena are not entirely clear
to us. Although we are still some distance away from fully understanding the three
dimensional system with its full complex features, we have indeed
discovered the self-excited oscillations and some of the dynamic behaviour
of the system in two-dimensional models
(Cai & Luo, 2003, Luo & Pedley 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, Pedley & Luo 1997, Luo et al, 2007, 2008), as
well as three-dimensional models (Marzo, Luo & Bertram, 2005, Zhu, Luo & Ogden, 2008).
I then moved from the South to the North in the next few years, mostly for family reasons.
From 1997 to 2000, I worked as a lecturer at the Department of Engineering, Queen Mary
and Westfield College, University of London. In 2000, I moved to Sheffield University, and took up a Lectureship (later Senior Lectureship), at the Department
of Mechanical Engineering. I have been working at
the Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow since 2005. I became a Reader in Computational Biomechanics in 2006,
and a Professor in Applied Mechanics in 2008.
In addition to flow in collapsible tubes
(Luo 2001, Cai & Luo 2003, Marzo, Luo & Bertram 2005, Luo et al. 2007, 2008, Liu et al. 2009), I am also interested in
modelling of heart and heart valves (Li et al, 2001, Luo et al. 2003, Watton et al 2007, 2008, Griffith et al. 2009, Yin et al. 2009);
particle deposition in the human upper airway
(Hu, Luo & Luo 2003, Luo, et al. 2004); the role of fluid mechanics
in the biliary diseases (Ooi et al. 2004, Bird et al. 2006, Al-Atabi et al. 2005, 2006, Li et al. 2007, 2008, Luo et al 2008), and Fluid mechanics and
arterial diseases.
Apart from work, I enjoy reading, walking, running, cycling, badmington, yoga, cooking, and travelling.
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