Henry Fu
 Mechanical Engineering, MS 312 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0312 email:
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Research interests Current research interests include complex biomaterials, hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms, and low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics. Specific research projects involve swimming hydrodynamics in non-Newtonian biological fluids and gels, mechanics of random filament networks, microrheology in gels, swimming hydrodynamics in shear flows, and the behavior of chiral particles in shear flows, with application to chiral separation. Biography Henry Fu received a master's degree in Chemistry concurrently with a bachelor's degree in Physics and Chemistry and Mathematics from Harvard University. His master's work included research in the field of low-temperature laser spectroscopy. He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in December 2006 for dissertation work on strongly correlated electron systems in condensed matter. He then redirected his research field to biological mechanics and fluid dynamics as a postdoctoral research associate in the Division of Engineering at Brown University from 2006-2010. Since July 2010, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Fu's research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Education A.B. Chemistry and Physics and Mathematics, Harvard University (2000) A.M. Chemistry, Harvard University (2000) Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Cambridge University (2001) (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) Ph.D. Physics, University of California at Berkeley (2006) Awards and honors Advanced Light Source Predoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2004-05) University of California University Fellowship (2003-04) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2000-03) Herchel Smith Harvard Fellowship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (2000-01) Harvard College Research Program Grant (1998-99) Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (1997) |