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Dr. Yu Qiu is currently an Associate Professor of the School of Energy Science and Engineering at Central South University (CSU). His research is focused on the following four topics: 

(I)  High-temprature (>400°C) and ultra-high-temperature(>1300°C) solar thermal power. 

(II) Thermal energy storage and heat transfer enhancements

(III) Solar-driven Hydrogen Production

(IV) Radiative Cooling and Evaporative Cooling

(V) Solar-driven interfacial evaporation

He received his bachelor of engineering degree from the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2013. He obtained his PhD degree from the School of Energy and Power Engineering, XJTU, in 2019, under Prof. Ya-Ling He’s supervision. He had studied in Georgia Institute of Technology as a visiting scholar/PhD candidate from Nov. 2017 to Nov. 2018 under Prof. Asegun Henry’s supervision. He joined CSU in 2019 as an associate professor. 

Dr. Yu Qiu received the 2019 First Prize of Provincial Natural Science Award of Shaanxi Province of China, a Wang Buxuan-Guo Zengyuan Outstanding Paper Award at 2017 Heat and Mass Transfer Conference of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, an Outstanding Paper Award from the 6th Graduate Forum of China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA).