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Professor Yu Liu
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

 

Biography

 Prof. Dr. Yu Liu got her PhD degree at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. She is currently a professor at the School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China. She is a council member of the Architects Branch of the Architectural Society of China, a council member of the Solar Energy Building Branch of China Renewable Energy Society. Between 1990 and 2000, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, with the support of the China Scholarship Council. In 2010, she was a senior visiting scholar at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, with the support of EU Erasmus Mundus scholarship.

She has accumulated over 30 years of research & teaching experience in the green, ecological and sustainable building & environment area. As director of the International Joint Research Center on Sustainable Building and Environment (IJRC-SBE) of Xi’an city, the founder & director of the Sustainable Building and Environmental Research Institute (SBERI) of NPU, she has established a broad multidisciplinary collaboration with researchers from different countries. Her recent research projects focus on green building assessment & design decision-making support, climate adaptive design and solar energy potential of urban/rural settlements in west China. As a principal researcher, she has completed more than 20 major research fund projects (including internationally collaborate projects).

She has published over 160 research papers in a range of professional journals and international conferences, 6 books and 2 book chapters, has been guest editor of the special issue of a couple of international journals, led or participated in editing of 9 building standards, and has been granted 10 patents. She received over 36 awards, including the China Construction Science and Technology Award and the Science and Technology Award of Shaanxi Province.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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