Prof. FU Lin Elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

Prof. FU Lin, Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Mathematics, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to education, research and service in the profession of aeronautics and related engineering sectors.

Prof. Fu Lin obtained his DEng in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2017. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and TUM before joining HKUST in 2021. He was recognized with an Early Career Award (ECA) by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in 2022 and an Excellent Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-EYS) in 2024. He received the 19th Youth Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM) in 2025.

Prof. Fu’s research focuses on the fundamental study of flow physics including turbulence, transitional flows, multi-phase flows, and magnetic fluids. His research dedicates to an improved theoretical understanding of these complex fluids and contributes to optimizing the engineering quantities of interest, such as drag, heat transfer, and mixing ratio. The potential applications involve the flow control of transonic and low-speed vehicles, scramjet hypersonic propulsion systems, combustions, microbubble dynamics, cavitation, aerodynamics, etc.

Established in 1866, the Royal Aeronautical Society has been at the forefront of developments in aerospace, seeking to promote the highest professional standards and provide a central forum for sharing knowledge. The Society now has over 25,000 members and has become an international, multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community.