On May 28, 2016, at the first PhD thesis defense of CCE, Mr. Minglei Li successfully defended his dissertation titled “Collisional dynamics and critical phenomena of non-coalescence fluid jets.” The examining committee consisted of Prof. Qiang Yao of Tsinghua University, Dr. Wenjun Kong from the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Prof. Zheng Chen from Peking University, and Profs. C.K. Law, Haitao Xu, Chao Sun, Zhuyin Ren, all four being faculty members of CCE. Prof. Qiang Yao chaired the defense and Dr. Yang Gao of CCE served as the secretary.

Mr. Minglei Li joined CCE in September 2011 as one of the first group of PhD students enrolled in CCE. He is supervised by Prof. C.K. Law, the director of CCE and worked on droplet combustion, jet collision, and turbulent combustion. Having passed this thesis defense, Mr. Minglei Li is expecting his PhD degree in June. He will then become the first PhD cultivated by CCE since its foundation in 2010. We wish him success in his future work after CCE.