Professor　Sun Mao

Diirector of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA)

Email: m.sun@263.net

Phone：82313027

Sun graduated from BUAA in 1978; received his M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University; and did post-doctorate research in University of Maryland (1983-85). Since 1986 he has taught and conducted research at BUAA.

Sun's research aims to identify, investigate, and discover new phenomena in a broad range of physical and biological systems. One of his current interests is understanding the intricacies of unsteady aerodynamics and animal flight dynamics through insect flight (other themes of his research include computational fluid dynamics, dynamical and compliant boundary problems in fluid flows and nonlinear dynamics in complex system).