December 25thAcademician Xia Keqing of Southern University of Science and Technology was appointed as an honorary professor of Northwestern Polytechnical University. Academician Li Yanrong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the University, Dean and Chief Scientist of the Institute of Extreme MechanicsAcademician Zheng XiaojingAdjunct ProfessorAcademician Zhou Youheand other attended the appointment ceremony.
Xia Keqing said that he was very grateful to Secretary Li Yanrong and Academician Zheng Xiaojing for the invitation, and was honored to be appointed as an honorary professor of Xi'an University of Technology. As a new member of the University of Western Technology, I am sincerely proud of the achievements of the University of Technology in the cultivation of "chief teacher" talents and organized scientific researchIn the future, we will be guided by the research of extreme mechanics, deepen cooperation, and help the university to build a "double first-class".
Zheng Xiaojing expressed her gratitude to Academician Xia Keqing for accepting the invitation to be appointed as an honorary professor of Western University of Technology. Academician Xia Keqing has high academic attainments and influence in the field of fluid mechanics, and has long been concerned about and supported the development of the Institute of Extreme MechanicsIt is hoped that this appointment will be an opportunity to strengthen the interaction with Academician Xia Keqing more closely, and give more guidance and support to the Institute of Extreme Mechanics in talent training and scientific research.
Li Yanrong said that Academician Xia Keqing is a well-known expert in the field of fluid mechanics, who has made fruitful research achievements and great influence in fluid turbulence, and has made important contributions to the development of mechanics in China. In the long-term practice of running schools, Xi'an University of Technology has formed characteristic advantages such as strong system integration ability of scientific research models, "chief teacher education culture" deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and good foundation for engineering technology transfer and transformation, and has made important contributions to scientific and technological research and talent training in the fields of aviation, aerospace and navigation in China. It is hoped that Academician Xia Keqing will combine his own strengths and interests and deeply participate in the development and construction of extreme mechanics in the schoolIn particular, extreme mechanics has been promoted to be more widely usedHelp the innovation and development of China's science and technology.
Xia Keqing, an expert in fluid mechanicsHe is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a chair professor in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology. Professor Xia Keqing graduated in 1981Lanzhou UniversityIn the same year, he went to the United States to studyHe received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell UniversityHe joined the Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong Chinese in 1992 and became Choh-Ming Professor of Physics in 2014In 2018, he served as a chair professor in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, and the director of the Research Center for Complex Fluids and Soft Matter, Southern University of Science and TechnologyIn 2021, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Xia Keqing has long been engaged in the experimental research of fluid turbulence, especially the experimental research of heat-driven turbulence and geophysical flowHe has won the second prize of the National Natural Science AwardHe was elected as a Senior Research Scholar of the Croucher Society of Hong Kong and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and was evaluated by the American Physical Society as "making great contributions to the experimental research and understanding of thermal turbulence". He is one of the academic leaders in turbulence research in China, the first Chinese associate editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM), the international flagship journal of fluid mechanics, and the first Chinese associate editor of the fluid mechanics division of Physical Review Letters (PRL), an international flagship journal of physics.