Phone (852) 39436305
Email ching(at)phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Education:PhD, University of Chicago, USA
MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
BSc, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Current Position:Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interests:Scaling and structures in fluid turbulence
Effect of polymers in turbulence
Boundary layer profiles in Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence
Reconstructing networks from dynamics
Honours and Awards:Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
Outstanding Referee, The American Physical Society, 2013
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, 2007-08
Fellow, The American Physical Society, 2005
Fellow, The Institute of Physics, UK, 2004
Achievement in Asia Award, The Overseas Chinese Physics Association, 1999
Professional Activities:Associate Editor, Physical Review E (November 1, 2019 - October 31, 2022)
Editorial Board Member, Physical Review E ( January 1, 2017 - October 31, 2019)
Editorial Committee Member, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2025)
Member, American Physical Society Fellowship Committee for the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2018)
Selection Committee Member, Francois Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society (January 2016 - December 2017)
Selection Committee Member, Stanley Corrsin Award, American Physical Society (August 2012 - July 2014)
Physical Science Panel member (2007-2013), Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Research Grants:RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics of Fluctuations in Turbulent Fluid Flows
RGC Earmarked Grant: Model Study of Fracture Propagation in Solids
RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics and Scaling in Turbulence
RGC Earmarked Grant: Velocity and Temperature Statistics in Turbulent Convection
RGC Earmarked Grant: Turbulent Convection: Statistics, Large-scale Circulating Wind, and Heat Transport
RGC Earmarked Grant: A Shell-Model Study of Turbulence: Drag Reduction and Thermal Convection
RGC Earmarked Grant: Extending Refined Similarity Ideas to Understand Anomalous Scaling of a Active Scalar in Turbulent Convection
RGC Earmarked Grant: Effects of Polymer Additives on Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
RGC Earmarked Grant: Extracting Connectivity of a Network from Dynamics of Nodes
RGC Earmarked Grant: Reconstructing Complex Networks from Noisy Dynamics
RGC Earmarked Grant: Spatial Structure of Boundary Layers and Heat Transfer in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Selected Publications:Emily S.C. Ching, H.S. Leung, Lukas Zwirner and Olga Shishkina, "Velocity and thermal boundary layer equations for turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection
Polymers in fluid flows
Reconstructing links in directed networks from noisy dynamics
Thermal boundary layer equation for turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection
Reconstructing weighted networks from dynamics
Extracting connectivity from dynamics of networks with uniform bidirectional coupling
Scaling behavior in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection revealed by conditional structure functions
Heat transport by laminar boundary layer flow with polymers
Effect of polymer additives on heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection", Physical Review Letters 104, 024502 (2010).
