Prof Tianshou Zhao is currently Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at HKUST and the Senior Fellow of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study. Prof Zhao is the Founding Director of HKUST Energy Institute. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, both in Engineering Thermo-physics, from Tianjin University, China, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.

Professor Zhao combines his expertise in research and technological innovation with a commitment to creating clean energy production and storage devices for a sustainable future. He has made seminal contributions in the areas of fuel cells, advanced batteries, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational modeling. In addition to 5 edited books, 9 book chapters and over 70 keynote lectures at international conferences, he has published 383 papers in various prestigious Journals. These papers have collectively received more than 20,100 citations and earned Prof Zhao an h-index of 76 (Web of Science). In recognition of his research achievements, Prof Zhao has in recent years received many awards, examples including:

Academician of Academy of Sciences (CAS)
2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award (HKUST)
State Natural Science Awards (2012, 2013)
The Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement
Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)
Croucher Senior Fellowship award
2018 Science Bulletin Best Paper Award
Overseas Distinguished Young Scholars Award (NSFC)
Yangtze River Chair Professorship

In the international community, Prof Zhao serves as:

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Elsevier) 2019
Editor-in-Chief, Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier) 2003-2019
Editor, RSC Energy & Environment Series (RSC)
Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Fuel Cells (Elsevier)
Executive Editor, Science Bulletin (Springer)
Member of Advisory Board, Energy & Environment Science (RSC)
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Power Sources (Elsevier)
Member of Editorial Board, Advanced Materials Technologies (Wiley)
Member of Editorial Board, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Member of Editorial Board, Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer
Member of Advisory Board, Heat Transfer Asian Research
Member of Editorial Board, Frontiers of Energy
Member of Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (CJA)
Member of Editorial Board, International Review of Mechanical Engineering
Editor, Acta Mechanica Sinica (Springer)
Associate Editor, Heat Transfer Research (Begell House)

Tianshou ZHAO 趙天壽

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