Prof. Chao Sun
Chao Sun is a professor at the Center for Combustion Energy, and the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, and the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University in China, and he is also a part-time professor at the Physics of Fluids Group at University of Twente in the Netherlands. He received his bachelor degree from Lanzhou University in 2000, and obtained his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006. From 2009 to 2015, he was a faculty member at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In 2015, he moved to Tsinghua University as a full Professor. His research interests include multiphase flows, high-Reynolds number turbulence, bubbles and droplets, and heat and mass transfer. He authored two review articles for Annual Reviews on ‘High-Reynolds Number Taylor-Couette Turbulence’ and ‘Bubbly and Buoyant Particle-Laden Turbulent Flows’. He was a plenary lecturer for the 10th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, and a keynote speaker for the 15th European Turbulence Conference. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Xplorer prize, and serves as an associate editor of International Journal of Multiphase Flow, an editor of Journal of Turbulence, and an editorial member of Physical Review Fluids, Acta Mechanica Sinica, Journal of Hydrodynamics, and Experiments in Fluids.