Xudong Zhao#
| Membership Number: | 7191 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hull.ac.uk/staff-directory/xudong-zhao |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6521-7054 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/xudong.zhao/ |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/xudong-zhao-64038669/?originalSubdomain=uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019.08 - today Director, Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies, University of Hull, UK
- 2019.08 - 2023.03 Deputy Director, Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull, UK
- 2016.01 - 2019.07 Professor, Director of Research, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hull, UK
- 2012.10 - 2016.01 Professor, Chair of Engineering, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hull, UK
- 2009.10 - 2012.09 Professor of Low Carbon Society, Head of PhD Programme, De Montfort University, UK
- 2005.01 - 2009.09 Lecturer, University of Nottingham, UK
- 1999.06 - 2004.12 PhD, Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK
- 1998.01 - 1999.03 Visiting Scholar, University of Nottingham, UK
- 1995.01 - 1998.01 Associate Professor, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
- 1987.10 - 1994.12 Lecturer, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Dew point cooling
- Heat pipe
- Solar photovoltaic/thermal
- Low carbon heating
- Phase change materials (PCM)
- Heat pump
- Combined heat and power (CHP)
Honours and Awards
- September 2024 Elected as the 'Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)'
- October 2020 Elected as the 'Fellow of European Academy of Sciences (FEurASc)'
- Feb. 2020 Elected as the 'Fellow of Energy Institute (FEI)'
- March 2020 Elected as the 'Fellow of the Charted Institution of Building Services Engineers (FCIBSE)'
- June 2020 Elected as the 'Fellow of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (FWSSET)'
- Included into the ‘2017 World Highly Cited Researchers list’
- Included into the ‘2020 - 2024 World World Top 2% Scientists List’ (5 consecutive years)
- 2024 Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International Energy Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 2022 UK Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Innovation Award, September 2022, London.
- 2022 Best Researcher Award, by ScienceFather
- 2019 Newton Prize Finalists Award, London - for a novel solar PV/T heat and power system.
- UK Rushlight Innovation Award, January 2019, London - for a super-performance dew point cooling technology.
- 2018 University of Hull Research Excellence Award (only one), by University of Hull, November 2018.
- August 2018 World Society of Sustainable Energy Technology 3rd Round Innovation Award, by the ‘World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies, Wuhan China - for a super-performance dew point cooling technology
- July 2017 World Society of Sustainable Energy Technology 2nd Round Innovation Award, by the ‘World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies, Bologna Italy - for a novel household solar heat pump heating system.
- World Society of Sustainable Energy Technology 1st Round Innovation Award, by the ‘World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies, July 2016, Singapore - for a novel solar thermal bed system
- European Dragon-STAR Innovation Silver Award (2nd place), by European Commission, May 2015, Brussels - for a novel loop heat pipe
