Speakers

Prof. Qian Xu

Jiangsu University, China

Biography:

Dr. Qian Xu received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in July 2013, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the same university until August 2014. In 2017, he worked at University of Waterloo, Canada as a visiting scholar. Currently he is a Professor at Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, China. He has received more than 10 research funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Fundation and Jiangsu Provincial Fundation etc., and made contributions in the areas of fuel cells, redox flow batteries, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational modelings. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers (4 of them are ESI hot papers), 2 academic books and 4 chapters with more than 3450 citations (HIndex=29), and applied 20 patents with 7 issued. He serves as the Editorial Board Member of PROCESSES (MDPI), Progress in Energy & Fuels, as well as the reviewer for more than 30 international academic journals. He received the “Six Talent Peaks” award of Jiangsu Province in 2016, and Outstanding Researcher Prize of Jiangsu Engineering Thermophysics Association in 2020.