Dr. Yanguang Zhou

Yanguang Zhou received his Ph.D. degree with “Ausgezeichnet” in the Mechanical Engineering Department at RWTH-Aachen University, as well as his M.Eng. degree and B.Eng. degree in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Beihang University and China University of Geoscience, respectively. After graduation from Aachen, he worked as a postdoc research associate and an assistant visiting project scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before joining HKUST as an assistant professor. His group designs advanced materials and structures, i.e., thermoelectric materials, magnetic materials, and nanocomposites, using nanotechnologies (both experimental and theoretical methods), with applications in energy, thermal management in solid-state batteries, and soft electronics. His research interests include Cooling technologies, i.e., evaporative and conductive cooling, multi-timescale and spatial scale simulations, Quantifying heat transport at the interfaces via experiments and simulations, Synthesis of MOF-based composites, and Algorithm development on nanoscale heat transfer.