I graduated with a Ph.D. from the School of Aerospace, Beihang University in 2018. After graduation, I conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Complex Systems and the Institute of Advanced Simulation Technology at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics in Spain. From 2022 to 2024, I served as an Assistant Researcher at the Ningbo Innovation Institute of Beihang University. In May 2024, I joined the International Innovation Institute of Beihang University in Hangzhou as an Associate Researcher. My primary research focuses on mesoscale fluid numerical simulation methods, fluid dynamics of microswimmers, liquid jet instability and atomization.  As of now, I have published 22 SCI papers, including 12 as the first author or corresponding author in journals such as Phys. Rev. E, J. Roy. Soc. Interface, and J. Food Eng.. I received the China-Germany CSC-DAAD funding in 2018 (Propulsion of microswimmers in a viscoelastic fluid), is leading a National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund project (Collaborative swimming of microswimmers in viscoelastic fluids, 2023), and has completed two industry projects (illycaffè: Modeling espresso extraction with mesoscopic simulation method; Beijing xxx Institute: Spray combustion software development project).

Current Research Directions:

1. Interaction of microorganisms/microswimmers in complex fluids: The swimming behavior of micro/nano swimmers in complex fluid environments is very complicated and is one of the frontiers of fluid dynamics research. My research team will employ Resistive Force Theory (RFT) to develop theoretical models and derive asymptotic approximations to describe the interaction dynamics of microswimmers. Additionally, through numerical simulations, we aim to elucidate the interaction mechanisms between two or more microorganisms in complex fluids. This will provide a more refined mechanical understanding of microswimmer clustering. The insights gained could offer valuable theoretical guidance for controlling the swimming behavior of targeted drug delivery micro/nano robots and optimizing the design of photosynthetic microbial reactors for efficient carbon capture.

2. Disturbance development and rupture of micro/nano jets under thermodynamic fluctuations: Liquid jets tend to break up into small droplets due to surface tension. The study of the development of disturbances on a liquid jet is a classical problem in fluid mechanics. However, at the micro/nano scale, thermodynamic fluctuations may dominate, leading to disturbance development and rupture patterns that differ from that at macroscale. My research team will conduct linear stability analysis and molecular dynamics simulations to clarify the effects and mechanisms of thermodynamic fluctuations, providing more complete theoretical foundation for the micro/nano jet manipulation techniques.

Selected recent publication:

1. C Mo, L Navarini, FS Liverani, M Ellero, Modelling swelling effects in real espresso extraction using a 1-dimensional coarse-grained model, Journal of Food Engineering, 365 (2024), 111843

2. C Mo, Q Fu, X Bian, Chemotaxis of an elastic flagellated microrobot, Physical Review E, 108 (4), 044408, 2023

3. C Mo, R Johnston, L Navarini, FS Liverani, M. Ellero, Exploring the link between coffee matrix microstructure and flow properties using combined X-ray microtomography and smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations, Scientific Reports, 13 (2023), 16374

4. C Mo, D Fedosov, Hydrodynamic clustering of two finite-length flagellated swimmers in viscoelastic fluids, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 20 (199):20220667, 2023 

5. C Mo, L Navarini, FS Liverani, M Ellero, Modeling swelling effects during coffee extraction with smoothed particle hydrodynamics, Physics of Fluids, 34 (4), 043104, 2022

6. C Mo, R Johnston, L Navarini, M Ellero, Modeling the effect of flow-induced mechanical erosion during coffee filtration, Physics of Fluids, 33 (9), 093101, 2021

7. C Mo, D Fedosov, Competing effects of inertia, sheet elasticity, fluid compressibility, and viscoelasticity on the synchronization of two actuated sheets, Physics of Fluids,  33 (4), 043109, 2021

8. C Mo, G Li, X Bian, Challenges and attempts to make intelligent microswimmers, Frontiers in Physics. 11(Sep), 2023