I am a Reader in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde at Glasgow. I received my PhD degree at Strathclyde in 2014 on Ocean Engineering. My research activity mainly focused on the Marine Hydrodynamics and Offshore Renewable Energy, and I have published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles on these areas. I am currently acting as the Executive Editor of Ocean Engineering, and Chair of ITTC Maneuvering Committee. I am currently leading the Hydrodynamics and Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory (HOREL) at Strathclyde. My research work on wave interference has been selected as Focus on Fluids article of Journal of Fluid Mechanics and highlighted by Nature (Nature. 565(7741):538), and these works have also been widely reported by TheTimes, DailyMail, Today Headline, ScienceNews, etc. In 2022, I shared the Ig Nobel prize in the field of Physics for “trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation”. I was elected as the Fellow of Royal Institution of Naval Architects.

For more information about our research group, please visit our webpage Hydrodynamics & Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory @ Strathclyde

The recent research directions carried out by my group include:

1. Offshore renewable energy system, including offshore wind, solar and wave energy;
2. Controllability and autonomous ships;
3. Offshore hydrogen;
4. Floating Offshore PV;
5. Hydrodynamics of ship and offshore structures;
6. Multibody hydrodynamic interaction and wave interference;
7. Ship-bottom, Ship-bank, Ship-lock, Ship-ship interactions;
8. Very large floating structures;
9. Real-time control of wave energy converters;
10. Free surface waves and the bio-mimetic study on animal swim.