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Dr Gan is visiting Oxford Mathematical Institute

By drgan | Published: 16/12/2019

From December 2019 to February 2020, Dr Gan will be visiting Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, as a part of his sabbatical leave. He will be working with Professor Dominic Vella on bio-inspired structure design for spontaneous directional liquid transport, a research project funded by Endeavour Executive Leadership Awards. Project background: Harvesting water […]

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Endeavour Executive Leadership Awards

By drgan | Published: 13/03/2019

Dr Gan is among the recipients of the recently announced Endeavour Executive Leadership Awards, supported by Australian Government Department of Education and Training. This award will enable him to work with Professor Dominic Vella at the Mathematical Institute in the University of Oxford, on project related to spontaneous directional transport (SDT) of liquids. This collaboration […]

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Funded Australia-India Fellowship

By drgan | Published: 13/03/2019

The Australian Academy of Science has announced the successful recipients of the Australia–India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) 2019 Fellowships. Dr Yixiang Gan was named among 11 recipients from different universities in Australia. He will be working with colleagues from IIT Madras and IIT Bhubaneswar on “Optimising thermal energy storage with […]

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Best Student Paper Awards (ACCM3) by Yanyao Bao and Si Suo

By drgan | Published: 02/05/2018

In February 2018, Yanyao and Si presented their research on the 3rd Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACCM3) hosted by Deakin University, and were both selected as “Best Student Paper Awards”. Congratulations! Well done! [1] Yanyao Bao, Ling Li, Luming Shen, and Yixiang Gan (2018), A modified smoothed particle hydrodynamics formulation for dynamic contact angles. The 3rd […]

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Inaugural Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellows launch

By drgan | Published: 07/12/2016

Last week, Dr Gan attended the launch event of the Inaugural Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellows. The fellows from the University’s new Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) program came together last week for a networking morning tea with the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Michael Spence, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Duncan Ivison. In its first year, the program will […]

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Mingchao awarded Endeavour Research Fellowship

By drgan | Published: 13/11/2016

Our previous visiting PhD student, Mr Mingchao Liu,from Tsinghua University has been awarded with Endeavour Research Fellowship from Australian Government. This prestige fellowship will support him to conduct a six-month research project at The University of Sydney in 2017. Congratulations to Mingchao. More details about Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships (link): The Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships are the […]

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Dr Gan selected as Sydney Research Accelerator fellow

By drgan | Published: 10/11/2016

Dr Gan has been selected as one of the inaugural Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) fellows at The University of Sydney. The news has just been announced by the University. SOAR stands for Sydney Outstanding Academic Researcher program. Extracted from the announcement (link): The first cohort of fellows of the University’s new Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) program […]

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Chongpu presented at IEEE Holm Conference and won Young Investigator Award

By drgan | Published: 12/10/2016

Mr Chongpu Zhai (a PhD candidate) presented our work on “Stress-dependent frequency response of conductive granular materials” at The IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts (9-12 October, 2016, Florida USA) and won the Young Investigator Award. Well done and Congratulations, Chongpu. The paper was co-authored by Chongpu Zhai, Dorian Hanaor, Gwénaëlle Proust, and Yixiang Gan, at The […]

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