Advanced Thermal Science and Flow Control Lab
Research Field
He is honored as distinguished professor at National Taiwan University since 2020. He became a professor of the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University in 2001. In the period from 2002 to 2004, he served as the director of Optomechatronics Education Resource center, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC. From 2004 to 2008, he served as the chairman of the display technology Education Program and counselor of advisory office, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC. He has been honored with the 2013 Distinguished Engineering Professor Award granted by Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE), Taiwan, ROC. From 2014 to 2016, he was elected as vice president of International Society of Coating Science and Technology.
Many students received best paper awards in various competitions, including the highest FPD-hands-on competition award (CMO-Award with NTD$ 1,000,000 prize in 2007), Five times Hiwin Thesis Award (Gold award with NTD$ 1,000,000 prize (x2) in 2009 and 2013, bronze Award with NTD$ 600,000 prize in 2015, excellent award (x2) in 2008 and 2025); Finetek Best Paper Award with NTD$ 200,000 prize (2014); and National Invention Award with NTD$ 200,000 prize (2014); Spintek Best Paper Award with NTD$ 150,000 prize (2015); four times distinguished dissertation award (in Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM in short, 2016, 2017, and 2019) and in Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME in short, 2011)); nine times competition awards in Conference of TAM (gold (x4), silver (x2), bronze (x1), excellent (x2)) and two times in Conference of CSME (gold (2025) and silver (2024)); together with more than 30 competition awards in different academic activities under his supervision. Constant international exchanges have been conducted as one of the traditions in his laboratory up to now.
Please also refer to the website: https://bernoulli.iam.ntu.edu.tw/en/index.html
Current research interests include wetting phenomena, advanced coating & flow control technology, microfluidic platform for biomedical and industrial applications, optomechatronic systems, and biomimetics.
He has been honored with the 2005 distinguished technology transfer award granted by National Science Council (NSC), the 2013 Distinguished Engineering Professor Award granted by Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE), Taiwan and served as Vice-President in International Society of Coating Science and Technology (ISCST) from 2014 to 2016. He has been a visiting professor in Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (2019/2-5). He was visiting research fellow of Taiwan Instrument Research Institute and National Laboratory of Animal Center from 2021 to 2022. In 2023, he was honored the Zhuo-Zhang Zong chair professor award of the engineering college, National Taiwan University. To promote the research outcomes to be benefitted for the society, he conducted the industrial and academic collaborations and the novel technology of TDC/TDCS (Thin-film Direct Coating technology o/w Suction) has won the best presentation award in the Outcome Presentation Contest of NSTC Industry-Academia Projects in 2023 and also earned the 22th National Innovation Award in 2025.
Dr.-Ing.-degree, Institute of Fluid Mechanics (LSTM), University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Job Description
In this project, the intern can learn the manufacturing techniques of surface treatment of superhydrophobic substrates and the skill of precision instrumentation design and control technologies within a period of 2-3 months. Furthermore, the intern can learn how to analyze the measured data to understand the liquid moving mechanism and how to prepare the good presentation and valuable report. The research schedule of intern will be planned as follows,
- Basic lab training and practice of machining, such as laser engraving, CNC machining etc., for the fabrication of the needed experimental setup. (1-2 weeks)
- Training of fluid properties measurement, high-speed camera & visualization practice and data-acquisition & processing. (1-2 weeks)
- Surface treatment training, e.g., different wettability, contact angle derivation, visualization and digitization of drop motion on surface with different controlling parameters, e.g., plane inclined angles, wetting conditions, moving speeds and fluid properties experiments. (4-6 weeks)
- Mechanical mechanism and results discussion, and report finalization (1 week)
Preferred Intern Educational Level
All candidates with enthusiastic heart for the scientific research are warmly welcome. Those who, in the master or PhD educational level and majoring in physics and engineering or having experience in interfacial experiment, are especially encouraged.
Skill sets or Qualities
- Responsibilities:
- Obey the rules of lab and instructions of senior members.
- Join the assigned training program, meeting and finish a complete internship report.
- Requirements:
- Good teamwork and English communication ability.
- Basic knowledge of physics and experimental ability.
- Enthusiasm for scientific research.
Job Description
The research schedule of intern will be planned as follows,
- machining etc., for the fabrication of the falling body, holder controller and experimental setup. (1 week)
- Literature reading, discussion and planning. Visualization technique learning, including experiment design, operation of fast camera, lightening and data processing etc. Experiments implementation and result discussion. (4 weeks)
- Verification of proposed possible mechanisms. Design of new models of the falling body for landing-control test. (2 weeks)
- Report writing, discussion and finalization (1 week)
* The starting date could be adjusted upon request.
Preferred Intern Educational Level
All candidates with enthusiastic heart for the scientific research are warmly welcome. Those who, above the 3rd undergraduate year and majoring in physics and engineering or having experience in experiment, are especially encouraged.
Skill sets or Qualities
- Responsibilities:
- Obey the rules of lab and instructions of senior members.
- Join the assigned training program, meeting and finish a complete internship report.
- Requirements:
- Good teamwork and English communication ability.
- Basic knowledge of physics and experimental ability.
- Enthusiasm for scientific research.