Fan Yubo (1965—) is a professor and PhD supervisor as well as Dean of the School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering of Beihang University. He is also Director of the Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology. He is a distinguished professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program and an awardee of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

Prof. Fan received his doctor’s degree from Sichuan University (previously known as Chengdu University of Science and Technology) in 1992. In recent years, he has been working on the basic and applied research into biomechanics, mechanobiology and their combination with biomaterials. From a multidisciplinary perspective, he studies diseases and health problems, the basics and key technologies of new medical devices, scientific and technological development strategies for medical devices, the mechanism and prevention of pilot injuries, and life protection and support technology. He has published more than 100 papers in journals listed in the Science Citation Index and obtained over 20 patents.

He was President of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, President of the World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers, a member of the World Council of Biomechanics, etc.