Invited SpeakerS
Yu Liu
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
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Biography |
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.