New Paradigms in Flow Battery Modelling

Professor Akeel Shah graduated with a first-class honours degree in Mathematical Physics in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (both from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) in 2001. He is currently a professor in the School of Energy and Power Engineering at the Chongqing University, China, with expertise in electrochemical energy conversion, computational engineering and applied machine learning. He previously held positions at University of Southampton and University of Warwick. His work is primarily focused on the modelling and simulation of energy conversion devices, including computational modelling, and the development of fast algorithms for computer codes in science and engineering based on machine learning and computational statistics. Between 2004 and 2006, he held a joint Pacific Institute of Mathematics Sciences (PIMS) and Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Fellowship. He is the author of over 85 publicationsin leading international peer-reviewed journals. Professor Shah has worked closely with the fuel cell and battery industry (Ballard Power Systems, Johnson Matthey Plc, Sharp Laboratories, ACAL Energy Ltd) to develop models/numerical codes for design purposes. He has received funding from the TSB, FP7, DSTL and directly from industry.

Professor Puiki Leung is currently a professor in the School of Energy and Power Engineering at the Chongqing University, China. He holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering (2008) and a Ph.D. in Electrochemical Engineering from the University of Southampton (2011). He has completed his postdoctoral research at institutes such as the University of Oxford, the University of Warwick and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he worked on a variety of electrochemical technologies (batteries, organic synthesis, CO2 reduction). His research interests include functional materials for energy conversion and storage applications. Heis the author of more than 50 publications in relevant fields.

Professor Qian Xu received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in July 2013 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the same university until August 2014. In 2017, he worked at University of Waterloo, Canada, as a visiting scholar. Currently, he is a full professor at Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, China. He has received more than ten research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Foundation and industry, and has made contributions in the areas of fuel cells, redox flow batteries, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions and computational modelling. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal papers (4 of them are ESI hot papers) and 2 academic books with more than 2850 citations (Google Scholar, H-Index 26) and applied 21 patents with 5 issued. He serves as the member of Editorial Board of Processes (MDPI), International Journal of Green Energy, as well as the reviewer for more than 30 international academic journals. He received the "Six Talent Peaks" award of Jiangsu Province, China, in 2016.

Professor Pang-Chieh Sui currently holds dual appointments at the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT, from 2016) and Tsinghua-Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute (EIRI, from 2018). Prior to joining the WUT/EIRI, he was a senior researcher and Tech Lab manager at the University of Victoria (Canada) during 2003-2015 and research scientist at National Advanced Driving Simulator (USA) during 1997-2003. Dr. Sui received a bachelor degree from National Tsing Hua University in 1986, M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Iowa, USA, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Sui's general research interests are: transport phenomena, polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, combustion and spray, and integrated energy systems. His specific expertise includes modelling and simulation of fuel cells using macro-, meso- and microscopic computational methods; experimental techniques for fuel cell materials characterization; development and validation for fuel cell simulation tools. He is a recipient of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Fellowship of Germany (2015), the 6th Hubei 100 Talent Plan Award (2016), the Sichuan-1000 Plan (2019) and the Overseas, Hong Kong & Macao Scholars Collaborated Researching Fund of China (2014).

Dr. Wei W. Xing received his Ph.D. in Engineering in 2017 from the University of Warwick, UK. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Scientific Computing Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah from 2017 to 2020. Since then, he has been an assistant professor, granted the title of university distinguish young fellow, in Beihang University, China. He has published more than 20 SCI papers and joined many national grand programs, e.g. DARPA, EPSRC and DECC. His research interest is mainly in machine learning for engineering, including surrogate models, Bayesian optimization, inverse problems, digital twins and uncertainty quantification.

教授阿基爾·沙（Akeel Shah）於1995年獲得數學物理一級榮譽學位，並於2001年獲得曼徹斯特科技大學的應用數學博士學位。他目前是中國重慶大學能源與動力工程學院的教授，專長於電化學能量轉換、計算工程和應用機器學習。他曾在南安普敦大學和華威大學任職。他的工作主要集中在能量轉換裝置的建模和模擬，包括計算建模，以及基於機器學習和計算統計的科學與工程計算代碼的快速算法開發。在2004年至2006年間，他曾獲得太平洋數學科學研究所（PIMS）和信息技術與複雜系統數學（MITACS）的聯合獎學金。他在國際同行評審期刊上發表了超過85篇論文。沙教授與燃料電池和電池產業（如Ballard Power Systems、Johnson Matthey Plc、Sharp Laboratories、ACAL Energy Ltd）密切合作，開發設計用的模型/數值代碼。他曾獲得來自TSB、FP7、DSTL及直接來自產業的資助。

梁培基教授目前是中國重慶大學能源與動力工程學院的教授。他於2008年獲得機械工程學士學位，並於2011年獲得南安普敦大學的電化學工程博士學位。他在牛津大學、華威大學和香港科技大學等機構完成了博士後研究，研究各種電化學技術（如電池、有機合成、二氧化碳還原）。他的研究興趣包括用於能量轉換和儲存應用的功能材料。他在相關領域發表了超過50篇論文。

徐謙教授於2013年7月在香港科技大學獲得機械工程博士學位，並在同大學擔任博士後研究員直到2014年8月。2017年，他在加拿大滑鐵盧大學擔任訪問學者。目前，他是中國江蘇大學能源研究所的全職教授。他獲得了來自中國國家自然科學基金、中國博士後基金和產業的十多項研究資助，並在燃料電池、氧化還原流電池、多尺度多相熱質傳遞與電化學反應及計算建模等領域做出了貢獻。他發表了超過90篇同行評審的期刊論文（其中4篇為ESI熱文）和2本學術書籍，引用次數超過2850次（Google Scholar，H-Index 26），並申請了21項專利，其中5項已獲得授權。他擔任《Processes》（MDPI）、《International Journal of Green Energy》的編輯委員會成員，並為30多本國際學術期刊擔任審稿人。他於2016年獲得中國江蘇省的「六大人才高峰」獎。

隋邦杰教授目前在武漢理工大學（WUT，2016年起）和清華-四川能源互聯網研究院（EIRI，2018年起）擔任雙重職務。在加入WUT/EIRI之前，他於2003年至2015年在維多利亞大學（加拿大）擔任高級研究員和技術實驗室經理，並於1997年至2003年在美國國家先進駕駛模擬器擔任研究科學家。隋博士於1986年獲得國立清華大學學士學位，並於1992年和1997年分別在美國愛荷華大學獲得碩士和博士學位。隋博士的研究興趣包括：傳輸現象、高分子電解質膜燃料電池、燃燒與噴霧，以及綜合能源系統。