Nan Xue received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University, China, in 2015. He then pursued his doctoral studies at Princeton University, USA, under the supervision of Professor Howard A. Stone, focusing on a variety of gravity-driven flows within fluid mechanics. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2021, graduating with the honorific Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship. Subsequently, Dr. Xue joined Professor Eric R. Dufresne’s group at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he contributed to research on soft materials. In 2023, he continued his work with the Dufresne Lab during their transition to Cornell University, USA, playing a key role in establishing the new laboratory. His current research interests lie in understanding the mechanics of living systems, with a particular focus on mycelium networks.

Outside of academia, Nan loves swimming. He tries to pretend to know the fluid mechanics of swimming very well, but unfortunately, his Reynolds number is, very, low.

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