Prof. Jinliang Xu is the Director of Key Laboratory of Power Station Energy Transfer Conversion and System of Ministry of Education, China. He was the Dean of School of Energy Power and Mechanical Engineering and the School of Renewable Energy, North China Electric Power University, in the period of 2010-2020. He got PhD at Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1995, and was a post-doctor in Tsinghua University from 1995 to 1997. After four years visiting position in oversea universities, he joined Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion from 2002, and setup the Micro Energy System Laboratory there. He joined North China Electric Power University in 2009 and founded the Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilizations.

His research interest includes multiphase flow and heat transfer in micro/nano systems, advanced power generation system, low grade energy and renewable energy utilization. He published more than 300 journal papers such as Physics Reports-Review, Small, Nano Letters, Nano Energy, Int J. of Multiphase Flow, etc, as the corresponding author. He has been the highly cited author in recent six years in Energy field. He has been the chair or co-chair for a set of academic conferences such as 4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (University College London, UK, 7-10 September 2014), IHTS 2014 (International Heat Transfer Symposium 2014, Beijing) and first Int. Conference on supercritical CO2 power system (2018 Being) etc. He is the editor of the journals of Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Water, Energies, Frontiers in Heat pipe. He is the guest editor for the special issue of Applied Thermal Engineering and Energy. He presented 50 plenary /keynote speeches in international conferences, and has been the reviewer for more than 30 journals. He received the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, China (first grade). He was "973" project chief scientist, Ministry of Science in the period of 2011-2016 and was named as the "Yangtze River Scholar" Professor by the National Ministry of education, China in 2013.