Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham

Dr Chandan Bose is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Birmingham and a subject expert in computational fluid-structure interaction (FSI). He leads the Bioinspired Fluid-Structure Interaction Laboratory at the University of Birmingham. His group conducts cutting-edge research on the computational modelling of biomimetic engineering systems, with a strong focus on vortex-dominated flows and fluid–structure interaction. Their work integrates partitioned fluid-structure coupling, overset meshing, immersed boundary methods, and GPU-accelerated high-performance computing to simulate complex, nature-inspired systems with unprecedented fidelity. The group develops advanced open-source CFD/FSI frameworks to study flexible wings, compliant membranes, squid-inspired nozzles, free-falling seeds, and collective aerodynamics in bio-inspired drone swarms. Through this multidisciplinary approach, the group uncovers the governing principles of natural locomotion and applies them to next-generation technologies in sustainable propulsion, morphing flight, and wave energy harvesting. He has authored 23 journal articles in prestigious journals, including the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Fluids and Structures, and Physics of Fluids and 20+ SCI-indexed conference proceedings and book chapters in the area of unsteady aerodynamics and FSI.  

Before joining the University of Birmingham, Dr Bose was an adjunct lecturer and postdoctoral associate at the University of Edinburgh, contributing to an ERC-funded project – Dandidrone. He is the recipient of the Wallonia Brussels International Excellence and FNRS postdoctoral fellowships in Belgium, and his PhD thesis was recognised by the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the IIT Madras Best Thesis awards in India. He has received research funding from the EPSRC, the Royal Society, the French Embassy, the British Council, Baskerville, and ARCHER2 HPC systems. He serves as an Editor in the OpenFOAM Journal, as an Editorial Board Member in Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) and the Journal of Computational Sciences (Elsevier), and as a guest Editor in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics (Elsevier). He is a Fellow and Theme Lead of the Institute of Data and AI, Deputy Director and Fluid Mechanics Lead at the Centre for Optimisation, Simulation and Data Driven Modelling, and Deputy School Impact Lead at the School of Metallurgy and Materials in the University of Birmingham. He co-leads the Midlands Fluid Mechanics Group in the UK.