Dr. Chunning Ji is a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University. He has been recognized as a Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union, is listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists, and ranks as a National Highly Cited Researcher (Top 1%). He serves on the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) and on the China Institute of Navigation (CIN), and is a member of the International Association for Hydro‑Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hydrodynamics, Hydro Science & Marine Engineering, and the Chinese Journal of Hydrodynamics.

He earned his Ph.D. in Port, Coastal and Offshore Engineering from Tianjin University in April 2006. From November 2009 to October 2011 he conducted postdoctoral research at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and later held visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, USA (October 2015–October 2016) and the University of Cambridge, UK (January 2023–May 2023). Since April 2006 he has been working at Tianjin University in the field of Port, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, progressing from Lecturer to Associate Professor and then to Full Professor.

Over the course of his career, he has led more than 20 international and national research projects. He has published over 200 papers in high‑level domestic and international journals, including more than 100 SCI‑indexed papers and six papers in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. He holds over 30 authorized national patents and has supervised more than 70 doctoral and master’s students, including five international students, two of whom have received the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Hydraulic Engineering.

His research interests span a broad range of topics: fluid–structure interaction, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, flow‑induced vibration and local scour of pipelines, ocean current energy utilization, micro‑ and meso‑scale sediment motion in turbulent boundary layer flows, deep‑sea mining, computational biofluid dynamics, and bionics. In 2011, His research on the sediment transport in turbulent boundary layer flows was evaluated by the UK Turbulence Consortium (UKTC) as ‘pushing the boundary of science’.

He continuously recruits postdoctoral fellows and doctoral and master’s students in Hydraulic Engineering and Ocean Engineering.

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