Liu Chao, Ph.D., professor, doctoral supervisor.China director of the institute of engineering thermal physics, heat at the Chinese Academy of Engineering thermal physics credit committee, a director of engineering thermal physics professional committee of China higher education society, Chinese Academy of Engineering thermal physics journal, special power supply key laboratory of the academic committee of the Chinese people's liberation army, machinery, industrial environmental protection machinery standardization technical committee of waste heat recycling technology and equipment technology committee.

He graduated in April 1988 and worked in Chongqing University. He was an associate professor in 1997 and then a professor and doctoral supervisor in 2003.He has long been engaged in the research and technical work of thermodynamics theory and engineering application, biomass pyrolysis utilization, micro-scale thermal phenomenon, and energy conservation and emission reduction in the industrial field.He has been responsible for and participated in more than 20 national, ministerial and provincial scientific research projects. He has won 2 Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Education and 1 Third Prize of Science and Technology of China Machinery Industry.More than 200 papers have been published, and more than 130 papers have been indexed by SCI.Obtained a number of authorized invention patents and utility model patents.Participated in the compilation of the national key construction of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the key textbook of thermal engineering for the 21st century, "Engineering Thermodynamics" (published by Higher Education Press), and a number of machinery industry standards of the People's Republic of China on waste heat recovery and utilization.

Currently, he is an evaluation expert of the State Science and Technology Award, the Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Education, the Yangtze River Scholars Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the science and technology projects of Jiangsu, Tianjin, Beijing, Hebei, Fujian, Sichuan and Chongqing.International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy and other more than 10 International journals, China Journal of Science, Chemical Industry and other domestic journals.

Research Interests:

1. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics theory and engineering application

2. Molecular dynamics simulation of microscale thermal phenomena

3. Thermophysical properties and thermal stability of working fluid

4. New energy storage principle and technology

5. Theory and new methods of energy efficient utilization and energy saving

6. Thermophysical temperature during shale gas exploitation