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Nhan Phan-Thien (born October 31, 1952 in AnGiang, Vietnam) is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has been an Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids since 2016.

Education
Phan-Thien graduated from the University of Sydney, Sydney Australia, with a BEng (Mech. Eng. 1st Honours, University Medalist, 1975). He later completed a PhD degree at the University of Sydney, the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1979.

Career
He has been a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University, Newcastle, Australia (1978-80) and at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (1980-2002). At the University of Sydney, he hold a Personal Chair (1991-2002). He was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore (2000-04, 2011-present). He was the founding Chair in Bio-Engineering Division, which later becomes known as Biomedical Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore. He has held visiting professorships in Los Alamos National Laboratory, CALTECH, California, and Stanford University, including the Qiushi Chair Professorship at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Research
Professor Phan-Thien and his group have published extensively on the rheology of polymeric liquids, computational and constitutive modelling.

Honours and Awards

 * Qiushi Chair Professor, Zhejiang University (2018-2021);
 * Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (elected 2016);
 * Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (elected 1999);
 * Centenary Medal, awarded by the Governor General of Australia for services to Australian society and science in mechanical engineering (2001);
 * Gordon Bell Prize, Price-Performance category, IEEE Computer Society (1997);
 * Australian Society of Rheology Medal, awarded by the Australian Society of Rheology for distinguished contributions to Rheology (1997);
 * Senior Fulbright Scholar (1982-83), California Institute of Technology, California, USA.