Fundings:
2025 Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs awarded to our group (Dr. Weiyu Shen)
2024 Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers awarded to our group (Prof. Lihao Zhao)
2024 DFG grant "Thermally driven Keplerian turbulence" awarded to our group
2024 DFG grant "Flapping propulsion near water-air interface" awarded to our group
2024 Fellowship of the Daimler and Benz Foundation for Junior Professors and Postdocs
2024 Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers awarded to our group (Prof. Mengqi Zhang)
2023 Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs awarded to our group (Dr. Shujaut Bader)
2023 DFG grant "The new core paradox, the stable layer, and double diffusive convection in Earth’s core" awarded to our group
2022 Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs awarded to our group (Dr. Jiaxing Song)
2021 Free floating Max Planck Research Group grant.
2019 David Crighton Fellowship from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Awards and other highlights:
2025 Euromech Visions of Fluid Dynamics Prize (see from EJMB wbesite)
2025 Cover article in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1018 (2025).
2024 Cover article in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 989 (2024).
2019 Christiaan Huygens Science Award for the top three best physics research in the Netherlands in last three years.
2019 Journal of Fluid Mechanics highlights our work in Focus on Fluids.
2019 Postdoc Award for Professional Development from Harvard University, USA.
2019 Science Communication Poster Prize at Physics@Veldhoven.
2018 2nd price in the AFMS video competition and 3rd price in AFMS Photo competition (Australian Fluid Mechanics Society gallery).
2018 NWO Physics Thesis Award (the best Physics thesis in the Netherlands).
2018 Overijssel PhD Award (the best thesis in the Dutch province of Overijssel).
2018 Cover article in Physical Review Letters, vol. 120, Issue 14.
2018 Cover article in Soft Matter, 14, 2006-2014.
2018 Nature Physics highlights our work: "Ultimate evidence for the ultimate regime".
2018 ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Award for the top five best Fluid Mechanics doctoral research in Europe.
2017 Chinese Government Award for outstanding self financed students abroad.
2017 First place of the ARCHER (UK national supercomputing facility) Image Competition.
2017 Editors' suggestion article in Physical Review Letters, 119, 054501, also covered by Phys.Org.