Zhiming Yuan
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Dr. Zhiming Yuan is an Ig Nobel Prize holder. He has been a Lecturer (Assistant Professor, 2015-2019) and then a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor, 2019 - ) in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde at Glasgow. He received his PhD degree at Strathclyde in 2014 on Marine Hydrodynamics. His research activity mainly focused on the Marine Hydrodynamics and Offshore Renewable Energy, and he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on these areas. Dr Yuan is currently acting as the Scientific Managing Editor for Ocean Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, Coastal Engineering and Marine Structures, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research and editor board member of several international journals. He is an ITTC committee member and sectary of ITTC Maneuvering Committee. He is currently leading the Hydrodynamics and Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory (HOREL) at Strathclyde. His research work on wave interference has been selected as Focus on Fluids article by Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and highlighted by Nature (Nature. 565(7741):538), and been widely reported by TheTimes, DailyMail, Today Headline, ScienceNews, 知识分子, etc.
