On Shun Pak is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Santa Clara University. He earned a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2013. He then continued his research as a post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University, before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Santa Clara University in 2014. His current research interests include low-Reynolds-number locomotion, biological flows, and complex fluids. More information about his work can be found at https://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/opak/.
Read On Shun’s Emerging Investigator article “Propulsion of an elastic filament in a shear-thinning fluid” and check out all of the 2021 Soft Matter Emerging Investigator articles here.
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