Xiaoyu Luo (Chinese: 罗小玉,^[1] born 1960^[2]) is a Chinese and British applied mathematician who studies biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and the interactions of fluid flows with soft biological tissues. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Glasgow.^[3]

Luo was born in the UK^[2] but grew up in Xi'an in a family of artists.^[4] After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in theoretical mechanics at Xi'an Jiaotong University, in 1982 and 1985 respectively, she became a lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong University. There, she studied for a Ph.D. from 1987 until 1990,^[4][5] with a visit to the UK through a joint doctoral program with the University of Sheffield. When she earned her Ph.D. at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1990, she became the first woman to do so.^[4]

She moved to the UK in 1992 to become a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds. She worked as a lecturer in engineering at Queen Mary and Westfield College from 1997 to 2000, and in mechanical engineering at the University of Sheffield from 2000 to 2004, before becoming a senior lecturer in mathematics at the University of Glasgow in 2005. She was promoted to professor in 2008,^[4][5] the first female professor of applied mathematics at Glasgow.^[2]

In 2014 she was named a chair professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an.^[2] She has also been a visitor to the International Center for Applied Mechanics at Xi'an Jiaotong University.^[1]

Luo became a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004^[4] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014.^[3][4]

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