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Zhao Pan, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, is co-creator of one of 20 images in the finals of the 2022 edition of Science Exposed, a contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
![image captured by Zhao Pan and his collaborator](/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/sites/default/files/uploads/images/drop_on_fiber_0.jpg)
This powerful photograph, produced with collaborator Floriane Weyer of the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, shows colorful droplets suspended from fibres crossed at a variety of angles.
The beautiful image was captured during research - inspired by huge droplets Pan observed hanging from the tips of leaves on cypress trees - into how the angles at which fibers cross affect the volume of droplets they can suspend.
Fraser King, a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Waterloo, is also a finalist for an image of a snapshot in time of a deep learning neural network’s complex brain for calculating precipitation.