Professor Yulong Ding is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. His current research covers both fundamental (multiphase transport phenomena across length scales) and applied (new energy conversion and storage technologies) aspects. He invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of its developments and validation, which is commercialized by Highview Power, a UK engineering company. He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies, leading to large-scale commercial applications with a total installation of >300MW / >1.2GWh so far. His work on passively cooled container technology has been on large-scale commercial demonstration for cold chain transportation applications.