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Metrics for Academic and Research Impact

Education 

2013 - 2018    Ph.D., Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University (China)

2009 - 2013    B.S., Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University (China)

Working Experience

2021 - Present    Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (HK)

2019 - 2021    Research Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)

2018 - 2019    Postdoc, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow (UK)

Selected Awards

2018    Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award, International Gas Turbine Institute, ASME

2017    IGTI Student Scholarship, International Gas Turbine Institute, ASME       

2017    Tanglixin Scholarship, Tsinghua University

2016    Wu Guan Zhong Art and Science Innovation Scholarship, Tsinghua University

2016    National scholarship, Tsinghua University

2015    Kwang-Hua Scholarship, Tsinghua University

2014    National scholarship, Tsinghua University       

Invited Presentations

1. “Novel thermal management for power and aerospace applications”, Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, July 2021.
2. “Novel thermal management for power and aerospace applications”, Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute, July 2021.
3. “Novel thermal management for power and aerospace applications”, School of Energy and Power Engineering,  Xi'an Jiaotong University, July 2021.
4. Keynote Speech, “Tuning Spectral Selectivity of Solar Absorbing Surfaces for Control of Interfacial Phenomena”, International Workshop on Heat-Mass Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control, 2021, Harbin, China.
5. Keynote Speech, “Tuning Spectral Selectivity of Solar Absorbing Surfaces for Control of Interfacial Phenomena”, International Symposium on Numerical Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020, Ningbo, China.
6. “Gas Turbine Double-Walled Cooling Techniques: Internal Cooling and Film Cooling”, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2019.
7. “A Novel Heat Exchanger Based on Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces for Supercritical CO₂ Cycles”, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2019.
8. “Investigation on Convective and Conjugate Heat Transfer Characteristics of Cooling Structures in Gas Turbine Thin-Wall Blade”, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2018.

Positions for PhD Students

We are looking for highly motivated students to join us. Applicants with research backgrounds in aerospace engineering, thermofluid, mechanical engineering, or materials science are preferred; students with backgrounds in other fields are also encouraged to apply. If you are interested, please send your CV, transcripts (including average grades in the hundred-mark system), and publications (if any) to Dr. Li ([email protected]). Please note that only those who are shortlisted for an interview will be contacted. 

Gas Turbine Thermal Management, Heat and Mass Transfer, Interfacial Materials and Phenomena, Solar Energy, Smart Windows