Biography: Alam Md. Mahbub is a professor at the Shenzhen Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology (China) since 2012. He worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), research and postdoctoral fellows at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and lecturer at the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh). He received MEng and PhD degrees from Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2001 and 2004, all in Mechanical Engineering. He has supervised 9 postdocs, 9 PhD students and 61 masters students. More than 400 technical articles are authored and co-authored, including 250+ SCI journal papers (11 single-authored, 51 first-authored and 148 corresponding authored papers). Most of the papers have been published in the top-notched journals, including Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Fluids & Structures, Ocean Engineering, Physics of Fluids, and Journal of Sustainable and Energy Reviews. Seven of the journal papers got positions in the lists of ‘TOP 25 hottest articles’ and four papers have been listed as TOP 1% highly cited articles by web of Science. His papers are well cited, 11800+ (h-index 56) in google database. He has been listed as a highly cited researcher, ranked top 2%, for 2018 - 2024 by Web of Science. He is the author of two books and 23 chapters in books. He has edited four special issues in ‘Wind and Structures, an International Journal’, one specia issue in 'Energies' and two conference proceedings published in Research publishing, Singapore. He has delivered 43 Keynote speeches at international conferences. He has also been listed as 'most cited Chinese researcher. He chaired four international conferences and five symposiums. His research has mostly involved flow-induced vibrations, flow-induced noise, turbulent wake behind bluff bodies, wind load on structures, fluid-structure interactions, hydrodynamics of swimming animals, heat transfer, flow control, and energy harvesting from wind and ocean current.

Prof Alam has received a number of awards: Japan Government Scholarship (monbusho) for Masters and PhD studies; JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral fellowship; South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF) rating ‘Promising Young Researcher, Y1’; China national level high-level young talents); Shenzhen High-Level Overseas Talent; Shenzhen High-Level Professional; 2015 Shenzhen Outstanding Teacher; and 2017 Nanshan-District High-Level Talent He has also received 06 best paper awards from different conferences. He is an editorial board member of ‘Wind and Structures, an International Journal’ and 'Fluid Dynamics and Material Processing'.