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University College London, UK
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Kai Luo is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He is also a fellow of several leading learned societies (such as IoP, IMechE, ASME, AIAA, The Combustion Institute) in his fields. He studied in the Engineering Department of Cambridge University and obtained his PhD in 1992. He conducted postdoctoral research in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Imperial College London from 1991 to 1993. He subsequently worked for Queen Mary, University of London, and became a full professor of the University of London in 2002. Between 2004 and 2013, he was Chair of Energy Systems in the University of Southampton, where he created and led a large Energy Technology Research Group, and developed highly successful MSc programmes in the energy field. He was appointed Chair of Energy Systems in UCL in 2013 and made Head of Energy and the Environment Research Division. Professor Luo has collaborated extensively with colleagues in the UK and across the world. He has supervised a large number of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom have become leaders in academia and industry. His research activities have been funded by major organisations such as the UKRI, EPSRC, the EU, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering as well as industry. He has initiated and/or led large national and international consortia such as the UK Turbulence Consortium, the UK Consortium on Computational Combustion for Engineering Applications, the UK Consortium On Mesoscale Engineering Sciences (UKCOMES).