2023

2023.05.16 Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Wenjie Qian for winning the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.

2023.05.04 Congratulations to Dr. Yiqiu Zhao for winning APS FECS Postdoctoral Prize Competition.

2023.04.24 Congratulations to Dr. Yiqiu Zhao for winning the prestigious RGC Postdoc Fellowship.

2023.01.06 We won funding support from RGC Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG) (2022/2023) to study the mechanics of soft composites.

2022

2022.12.03 We have successfully organized the Soft Matter Day (A workshop for soft matter and biological physics) at HKUST.

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2022.08.12 We Welcome Chang Xu to join our group as a PhD student.

2022.06.30 We thank the funding support from RGC General Research Fund (2022/2023).

2022.06.09 Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Haitao Hu for winning the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.

2022.05.19 Congratulations to both Weiwei Zhao and Haitao Hu for passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam and officially becoming the Ph.D. candidates.

2022.01.18 Our paper published in Soft Matter was also featured on the back cover of the issue.

2021

2021.09.01 Welcome Wenjie Qian to join the group as a PhD student.

2021.08.12 Welcome Dr. Yiqiu Zhao to join the group as a postdoc researcher.

2021.08.03 Our collaboration program with Dr. Yifan Wang at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) wins the the support from ASPIRE League Partnership Seed Fund Program.

2021.06.30 We thank the support from RGC General Research Fund (2021/2022).

2021.06.01 We welcome Chang Xu from USTC to join the group as a intern student.

2021.06.01 We welcome Huaiyue Peng to join the group as a summer research student.

2021.05.31 We congratulate Lydia for finishing her undergratduate research project in our lab. We wish her have a bright future in Netherlands. 

2021.02.17 We welcome Law Wai Hong to join our group as an undergraduate researcher.

2021.02.01 We welcome Vaisakh V M to join our group as a PhD student.

2020

2020.12.03  We have moved to the new lab room today!

2020.11.30 Our paper of “Viscoelastic and Poroelastic Relaxations of Soft Solid Surfaces” has published on Physical Review Letters.

2020.09.24 We welcome Lydia Mak to join our group as a undgergraduate researcher.

2020.08.17 We welcome Haitao Hu to join our group as a Ph.D. student.

2020.07.28 We welcome Weiwei Zhao to join our group as a Ph.D. student.

2020.07.25 Prof. Qin Xu gave a talk in the 23rd Annual Conference of the Physical Society of Hong Kong. 

2020.07.09  Prof. Qin Xu gave a talk in the Visual Symposium “Physics of Dense Suspensions” to present our recent works on stress fluctuations of shear thickening fluids.

2020.06.30  We thank the generous support from RGC Early Career Scheme (2020/2021).

2020.06.22  We welcome Jianhui (Jonathon) Zhou to join our group to perform the Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP).

2020.03.01  Laboratory of complex fluids and soft matter was founded at HKUST.