Dr Zhu Lailai joins the Department of Mechanical Engineering (NUS) as an Assistant Professor in January 2020. He received his PhD from KTH Sweden, and has been a postdoc at Princeton University for the past several years. Dr Zhu is interested in problems related to low-Reynolds-number fluid-structure interactions, bio-inspired design of active and adaptive systems, sea-ice dynamics, non-Newtonian/multiphase flows and microfluidics, etc. He builds and utilises a variety of high-fidelity computational tools, and develops theoretical models to tackle these problems. Combining simulations and theory, his research not only aims to unravel the physical mechanisms underlying the natural phenomena and experimental observations, but also explores and develops innovative strategies that would inform new, advanced engineering designs.
