Capillarity and wetting, multicomponent fluids, interfacial flows, drops and bubbles

2021.12 – Present. Assoc. Prof. School of Engineering Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China

2017.9. – 2021.10. Postdoc. Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, Netherlands Supervisor: Prof. Detlef Lohse

2011.07 – 2017.09        Tsinghua University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PhD.

2007.09 – 2011.07        Tsinghua University, Department of Thermal Engineering, BSc.

Published papers:（Google Scholar）：

1. Xiaolai Li, Neil Ribe*, Yanshen Li, Xiangwei Li, Wei Guo, Changjin Wu, Huanshu Tan, & Ho Cheung Shum*. Lateral self-propulsion of Marangoni droplets in stratified fluids. J. Fluid Mech. 1039, A44 (2026).
2. Yuan Gao, & Yanshen Li*. The interactions between two drops floating on a partially miscible liquid pool. J. Univ. Chin. Acad. Sci. Published online (ahead of print) (2026).
3. Xin Li, & Yanshen Li*. Influence of dissolved gas concentration on the lifetime of surface bubbles in volatile liquids. Int. J. Multiph. Flow 196: 105508 (2026). (Express Track)
4. Yanshen Li*. Research progress on the Marangoni instability of a drop/bubble immersed in linearly stratified liquids. Chin. J. Theor. Appl. Mech. 56(6): 1540-1551 (2024).
5. Jochem G Meijer*, Yanshen Li*, Christian Diddens, & Detlef Lohse*. On the rising and sinking motion of bouncing oil drops in strongly stratified liquids. J. Fluid Mech. 966, A14 (2023).
6. Yanshen Li*, Jochem G. Meijer, & Detlef Lohse*. Marangoni instabilities of drops of different vis- cosities in stratified liquids. J. Fluid Mech. 932, A11 (2022).
7. Yanshen Li*, Christian Diddens, Andrea Prosperetti, & Detlef Lohse*. Marangoni instability of a drop in a stably stratified liquid. Phys. Rev. Lett. 126(12): 124502 (2021).
8. Yanshen Li*, Kai Leong Chong, Hanieh Bazyar, Rob G. H. Lammertink, & Detlef Lohse*. Universality in microdroplet nucleation during solvent exchange in Hele-Shaw-like channels. J. Fluid Mech. 912, A35 (2021).
9. Kai Leong Chong*, Yanshen Li, Chong Shen Ng, Roberto Verzicco, & Detlef Lohse*. Convection- dominated dissolution for single and multiple immersed sessile droplets. J. Fluid Mech. 892, A21 (2020).
10. Featured in Physics Yanshen Li, Christian Diddens, Andrea Prosperetti, Kai Leong Chong, Xuehua Zhang, & Detlef Lohse*. Bouncing oil droplet in a stratified liquid and its sudden death. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122(15):154502 (2019). Highlighted by: Nature, Physics, Chemistry World, FYFD, Phys.org, CompactPhysics.
11. Xiaolai Li, Yuliang Wang*, Binglin Zeng, Yanshen Li, Huanshu Tan, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, Xuehua Zhang*, & Detlef Lohse*. Entrapment and dissolution of microbubbles inside microwells. Langmuir 34(36), 10659-10667 (2018).
12. Zhe Yin, Huimin Wang, Muqiang Jian, Yanshen Li, Kailun Xia, Mingchao Zhang, Chunya Wang, Qi Wang, Ming Ma, Quan-shui Zheng, & Yingying Zhang*. Extremely black vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays for solar steam generation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 9(34), 28596-28603 (2017).
13. Yanshen Li, David Quéré, Cunjing Lv, & Quanshui Zheng*. Monostable superrepellent materials. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114(13), 3387-3392 (2017). Highlighted by: Europhysics News.
14. Yanshen Li, Cunjing Lv, Zhaohan Li, David Quéré*, & Quanshui Zheng*. From coffee rings to coffee eyes. Soft Matter 11(23), 4669-4673 (2015).

• 2023.01 – 2026.12 Principal Investigator (PI). “Study on Marangoni Flows and Their Instability at an Interface Subjected to a Stable Density Gradient.” General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Grant No. 12272376
• 2023.05 – 2024.12 Principal Investigator (PI). Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China
• 2022.05 – 2026.12 Principal Investigator (PI). Youth Talent Project (Talent Support System Pro- gram), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China
• 2022.01 – 2027.12 Principal Investigator (PI). Research Start-up Fund, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China

• 2026.01 – 2029.01 Young Editorial Board Member, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 
• 2025.12 – 2030.12 Young Editorial Board Member, Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2023.08 Chair of parallel sessions, The 16th International Conference on Fluid Control, Measurements, and Visualization (FLUCOME 2023), Beijing, China.
• 2021.01 – Present. Reviewer for Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., J. Fluid Mech. (×2), Int. J. Multiph. Flow (×3), Soft Matter (×3), Phys. Rev. Fluids, Phys. Rev. E, Rev. Sci. Instrum., Appl. Phys. Lett., Sci. China Technol. Sci., Acta Mech. Sin. (×2), etc.

• Lead Instructor, Interfacial Flows and Wetting (graduate course), UCAS, taught annually, 2023 – 2026. Student evaluations: 100/100 (course), 99/100 (instructor)
• Lead Instructor, Freshman Seminar 1 (undergraduate), UCAS, Fall 2025–2026

2024 Third Prize in the University-level Young Faculty Teaching Skills Contest

2024 Xiaomi Young Scholar Award

2023 Excellent Individual in Annual Performance Evaluation, School of Engineering Science

2023 Leading Goose Gold Award of UCAS

2018 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Reviewing for International Journal of Multiphase Flow