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I was born in Xi\'an, the beautiful ancient capital of China. I grew up in an artistic family with my father and brothers who specialized in Chinese water painting. Having realised that my talent in drawing is not half as good as my brothers\', I turned my interests to Mathematics and Physics. In 1978 after winning the Runner up in the Xi\'an High School Mathematics Competition, I accepted the unconditional offer from Xi\'an Jiaotong University, one of a top Universities in China. There I spent seven years and obtained my BEng and MSc in Solid and Applied Mechanics. I was then offered a lecturership by the University in 1985. My research was on sub-model analysis of structures (Xue & Luo 1986, 1987).
Since 1987, I became increasingly interested in biomechanics, and started my PhD study on blood flow in arteries while working part time as a lecturer. Then sponsored by the World Bank I visited the Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the UK for 14 months. This gave me a chance to perform some experiments on fluid mechanics and was exposed to the surgeon\'s view of blood flow problems.
Returned to China in 1988, I started to model blood flow in arterial models with stenosis (a cross-sectional area constriction resulting from atherosclerosis) using numerical methods, and investigated the relation between the geometry of the stenosis and the wall shear stress (Luo & Kuang, 1990, 1991, 1992a). I was also interested in the non-Newtonian behaviour of the blood (Luo & Kuang, 1992b) and together with Professor Z B Kuang, proposed a new constitutive model for blood (Luo & Kuang, 1992c). In 1990, I obtained my Ph.D, and was awarded the Tang ZhaoQian Scholarship, an Award for outstanding PhD students at the Xi\'an Jiaotong University. In 1992, I became an editor of the Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics.
I returned to the UK in 1992 and worked as a post-doc RA with Professor T J Pedley, FRS, on fluid flow in collapsible tubes. Flow in collapsible tubes causes many interesting phenomena, such as flow limitation, and self-excited oscillations. The mechanisms of these phenomena are not entirely clear to us. Although we are still some distance away from fully understanding the three dimensional system with its full complex features, we have indeed discovered the self-excited oscillations and some of the dynamic behaviour of the system in two-dimensional models (Cai & Luo, 2003, Luo & Pedley 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, Pedley & Luo 1997, Luo et al, 2007, 2008), as well as three-dimensional models (Marzo, Luo & Bertram, 2005, Zhu, Luo & Ogden, 2008).
I then moved from the South to the North in the next few years, mostly for family reasons. From 1997 to 2000, I worked as a lecturer at the Department of Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. From 2000-2005, I was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield. And finally in 2005, I moved to the Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow. I became a Reader in Computational Biomechanics in 2006, and a Professor in Applied Mechanics in 2008.
Currently, in addition to flow in collapsible tubes (Luo 2001, Cai & Luo 2003, Marzo, Luo & Bertram 2005, Luo et al. 2007, 2008), I am also interested in heart valves (Li et al, 2001, Luo et al. 2003, Watton et al 2007, 2008); particle deposition in the human upper airway (Hu, Luo & Luo 2003, Luo, et al. 2004); the role of fluid mechanics in the biliary diseases (Ooi et al. 2004, Bird et al. 2006, Al-Atabi et al. 2005, 2006, Li et al. 2007, 2008, Luo et al 2008), and Fluid mechanics and arterial diseases .
Apart from work, I enjoy reading, walking, running, cycling, badmington, yoga, cooking, and travelling.
Since 1987, I became increasingly interested in biomechanics, and started my PhD study on blood flow in arteries while working part time as a lecturer. Then sponsored by the World Bank I visited the Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the UK for 14 months. This gave me a chance to perform some experiments on fluid mechanics and was exposed to the surgeon\'s view of blood flow problems.
Returned to China in 1988, I started to model blood flow in arterial models with stenosis (a cross-sectional area constriction resulting from atherosclerosis) using numerical methods, and investigated the relation between the geometry of the stenosis and the wall shear stress (Luo & Kuang, 1990, 1991, 1992a). I was also interested in the non-Newtonian behaviour of the blood (Luo & Kuang, 1992b) and together with Professor Z B Kuang, proposed a new constitutive model for blood (Luo & Kuang, 1992c). In 1990, I obtained my Ph.D, and was awarded the Tang ZhaoQian Scholarship, an Award for outstanding PhD students at the Xi\'an Jiaotong University. In 1992, I became an editor of the Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics.
I returned to the UK in 1992 and worked as a post-doc RA with Professor T J Pedley, FRS, on fluid flow in collapsible tubes. Flow in collapsible tubes causes many interesting phenomena, such as flow limitation, and self-excited oscillations. The mechanisms of these phenomena are not entirely clear to us. Although we are still some distance away from fully understanding the three dimensional system with its full complex features, we have indeed discovered the self-excited oscillations and some of the dynamic behaviour of the system in two-dimensional models (Cai & Luo, 2003, Luo & Pedley 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, Pedley & Luo 1997, Luo et al, 2007, 2008), as well as three-dimensional models (Marzo, Luo & Bertram, 2005, Zhu, Luo & Ogden, 2008).
I then moved from the South to the North in the next few years, mostly for family reasons. From 1997 to 2000, I worked as a lecturer at the Department of Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. From 2000-2005, I was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield. And finally in 2005, I moved to the Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow. I became a Reader in Computational Biomechanics in 2006, and a Professor in Applied Mechanics in 2008.
Currently, in addition to flow in collapsible tubes (Luo 2001, Cai & Luo 2003, Marzo, Luo & Bertram 2005, Luo et al. 2007, 2008), I am also interested in heart valves (Li et al, 2001, Luo et al. 2003, Watton et al 2007, 2008); particle deposition in the human upper airway (Hu, Luo & Luo 2003, Luo, et al. 2004); the role of fluid mechanics in the biliary diseases (Ooi et al. 2004, Bird et al. 2006, Al-Atabi et al. 2005, 2006, Li et al. 2007, 2008, Luo et al 2008), and Fluid mechanics and arterial diseases .
Apart from work, I enjoy reading, walking, running, cycling, badmington, yoga, cooking, and travelling.
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