The 3rd Conference of Global Chinese Scholars on Hydrodynamics (CCSH2026)

Dr. Siming Zheng serves as a ZJU100 Young Professor at Zhejiang University in China and holds a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Plymouth in the UK. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Tianjin University in 2011 and his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2016. He then undertook postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University, before moving to the University of Plymouth in the UK, where he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and then COAST Research Fellow, and was subsequently promoted to Lecturer in Ocean Engineering. In 2022, he successfully secured funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through its Science Fund Program for Excellent Young Scientists (Overseas). Dr. Zheng was named among the `Top 2% World Ranking Scientists’ by Stanford/Elsevier, and received the title of `Distinguished Young Scholar of China Frontiers of Engineering’ by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

Dr. Zheng's research addresses key challenges in offshore renewable energy and wave-structure interactions, with particular interests in hydroelasticity, metastructure-based wave control, and the hydrodynamic optimisation of wave energy converters. His theoretical work extends from floating elastic plates, porous structures, and metastructures to offshore solar farms, wave farms and marine structure-integrated wave energy converters. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed SCI-indexed journal papers, including nine published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. He published a book with Springer Press and contributed to the writing of two chapters in a book published by CRC Press. He is currently an associate editor of Journal of Fluids and Structures and on the editorial boards of journals such as Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Renewable Energy, Ocean Engineering, and serves as a guest editor for Physics of Fluids, Ocean Modelling, etc. He is also a member of the Technical Program Committee for the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE). Additionally, he serves as deputy secretary general of the Marine Renewable Energy Technology Committee of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering.