Dr. Xinpeng Xu received his B.S. in physics from the Wuhan University in 2008 and Ph.D. in Nano Science and Technology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2012.  After several years of post-doctor experiences in HKUST, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Technion-Israel, he joined the faculty of science in GTIIT in the fall of 2017 as an assistant professor. His main research interests are in the theory of soft matter and biological systems in close collaboration with experiments. In particular, his recent researches focus on the structure, phase behavior and dynamics of systems such as droplets, polymer solutions, polymer gels, active fluids and biological cells, using the approaches of statistical thermodynamics. His works have been published in some top scientific journals: Nature Physics, Physical Review E, Physical Review Fluids, and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter etc.

• Soft Matter Physics, 

• Biological Physics,

• Active Matter, 

• Cell Mechanics, 

• Colloidal Suspensions, 

• Polymer Solutions, 

• Polymer Gels, 

• Wetting Dynamics.

Papers

Xinpeng Xu, Chun Liu, and Tiezheng Qian, Hydrodynamic boundary conditions for one-component liquid-gas flows on non-isothermal solid substrates, Comm. Math. Sci. 10 (4), 1027 (2012).

Xinpeng Xu and Tiezheng Qian, Thermal singularity and droplet motion in one-component fluids on solid substrates with thermal gradients, Phys. Rev. E 85, 061603 (2012).

Xinpeng Xu and Tiezheng Qian, Hydrodynamics of leidenfrost droplets in one-component fluids, Phys. Rev. E 87, 043013 (2013).

Xinpeng Xu and Tiezheng Qian, Single-bubble dynamics in pool boiling of one-component fluids, Phys. Rev. E 89, 063002 (2014).

Yahua Liu, Lisa Moevius, Xinpeng Xu, Tiezheng Qian, Julia M. Yeomans, and Zuankai Wang, Pancake bouncing on superhydrophobic surfaces, Nat. Phys. 10, 515 (2014).

Xinpeng Xu, Uwe Thiele, and Tiezheng Qian, A variational approach to thin film hydrodynamics of binary mixtures, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27, 085005 (2015).

Jiaolong Zhang, Xinpeng Xu, and Tiezheng Qian, Anisotropic particle in viscous shear flow: Navier slip, reciprocal symmetry, and Jeffery orbit, Phys. Rev. E 91, 033016 (2015).

Xinpeng Xu and Samuel Safran, Nonlinearities of biopolymer gels increase the range of force transmission, Phys. Rev. E 92, 032728 (2015).

Xinpeng Xu (corresponding author) and Samuel Safran, Compressive elasticity of polydisperse biopolymer gels, Phys. Rev. E, 95(5), 052415 (2017).

Yongjoo Baek, Alexandre Solon, Xinpeng Xu, Nikolai Nikola, Yariv Kafri, Generic long-range interactions between passive bodies in an active fluid, Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 058002 (2018).