Qi Chen (陈琦)

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Endao Han’s group at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Having worked with several research groups globally, my research interests encompass heat transfer, high-pressure gas jets, microfluidics, microscopic biofluid dynamics, and soft active matter. My current research focuses on the collective motion of active matter, using Myxococcus xanthus as a model bacterium.

I obtained my Bachelor and Master degrees from Shandong University (SDU), China, where I worked with Prof. Xuefang Li on the jetting dynamics of high-pressure hydrogen from nozzles. During this period, I also developed microfluidic setups to investigate the formation and behaviours of monodisperse droplets and bubbles.

I earned my Ph.D. from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Anne Juel and Dr. Igor L. Chernyavsky. For my doctoral research, I developed a biomimetic suspension model for red blood cells (RBCs) using monodisperse, ultra-soft PDMS capsules, which quantitatively mimics the large deformations of RBCs in confined tubes. Building on this framework, I investigated the rheological and dispersion behaviors of these soft suspensions within both ordered and disordered planar porous media.

I am always open to academic discussions and potential collaborations. Please feel free to reach out to me at qi_chen@ntu.edu.sg.

Research Interests

• Complex Fluids & Biofluid Dynamics
• Active Matter & Collective Motion
• Microfluidics, Fluid Mechanics
• Hemodynamics and Hemorheology in Porous Media
• Machine Learning