On December 31, 2021, invited by Prof. Junfeng Wang, dean of the school of energy and power engineering of Jiangsu University, Prof. Kun Luo from Zhejiang University gave a report on applications on National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The report, held via online and offline meetings, was chaired by Prof. Junfeng Wang. The heads of departments/institutes, faculty who plan to apply for NSFC in 2022, doctoral students, and some off-campus teachers attended the meeting.

Prof. Kun Luo first elucidates the reform of NSFC in recent years, detailing the notes and attention during the NSFC application. He believes that high-quality proposals should follow universal principles: profound, logically clear, and readable. NSFC focuses on fundamental research. The critical point for the approval of NSFC lies in whether the proposals meet major national strategies, can solve industry problems, and possess distinct innovation. Based on his own application experience, Prof. Kun Luo summarizes NSFC with four aspects: idea/innovation, topic selection/accuracy, method/advanced, and scheme/completeness. The writing of proposals has been analyzed in detail from the topic selection, abstract, teams, research foundation, contents, etc. Through this report, teachers from the school gain a deeper understanding of the policy, notes, and structures of NSFC, which will help to further improve the application of our school.

Luo Kun is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University. He has been successively selected as the top young talents of the Ten Thousand Talents Program, the young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leaders. He has been engaged in computational modeling and numerical simulation of complex multiphase flows in energy and power engineering. He has presided over many important national research projects, holds the director of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, and associate editor/editorial board member of many journals.