The Chair of Energy Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool
Plenary Lecture: "Clean Heat for All: Tackling Challenges through Technology and Innovation on the Path to Net Zero"
Professor Zhibin Yu currently holds the Chair of Energy Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool. He is the Head of the Energy Research Cluster within the School and holds a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship (2023–2027). Prior to this, he was Professor of Thermal Energy at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on thermal energy technologies, with particular interest in developing innovative solutions for sustainable heating, cooling, and power generation. His expertise spans heat pumps, refrigeration, energy storage, organic Rankine cycle, thermoacoustics, etc. He has published around 200 research papers and is the inventor of the Flexible Heat Pump Cycle (PCT: WO2022069581A1). He currently serves as Associate Editor for Applied Energy (Elsevier) and Thermal Science and Engineering (Springer Nature), Subject Editor for Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier), and Section Editor-in-Chief for Frontiers in Thermal Engineering. He also sits on the editorial boards of Energy Reports (Elsevier) and the International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis).