Invited Speakers
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.