Energy Systems

Yabin has recently moved to Cambridge. Please see his updated profile: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/yl742

Yabin was the very first 1851 Research Fellow at the School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, and he is currently a visiting fellow in the School. His research interest is in the broad area of fluid dynamics and flow control, particularly for tidal/wind turbines, turbomachinery and aerial/underwater vehicles. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Energy and Power Engineering of Tsinghua University in 2021, with both the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis prize and the Beijing Outstanding Graduate prize. He studied at the University of Cambridge as a fully-sponsored visiting Ph.D. student for 1 year. His doctoral project was on spatial-temporal evolution and controlling methods of tip leakage vortex in turbomachinery. From Sept. 2021 to Aug. 2023, he worked as a research associate at the University of Edinburgh, on the EPSRC Morphing Blades project and explored gust mitigation through passive pitch and flexible trailing edge within analytical analysis and fluid-structure interaction simulation.

As PI or awardee, he has won more than £ 800k funding in total. He is holding the highly competitive and prestigious 1851 Brunel Fellowship (2023-2026), which only has one awardee annually. This fellowship granted by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is set to give early career scientists and engineers of exceptional promise the opportunity to conduct a research project of their own instigation.  He has won the Royal Society ISPF International Collaboration Award, the Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funding, the EPSRC IAA Innovation Award, the Lund University 'Get Started Funding', etc.

He has a distinguished peer-reviewed publication record, with 3 ESI Highly-Cited/Hot papers and an h-index of 15. He was honoured as a ScholarGPS Highly-Ranked Scholar (top 0.05%). He won many prestigious scholarships and prizes, including the HiWin Doctoral Dissertation Award, the most prestigious prize for PhD graduates in all Mechanical Engineering subjects across Mainland China, Taiwan, HK and Macao, and the Chung-Hua Wu Outstanding Graduate Prize, the highest domestic honour in this major with 9 students awarded in China. He was the winner of the Young Professionals Green Energy Awards and recently shortlisted as a finalist for the Scottish Green Energy Awards, the UK's largest celebration of the renewable energy industry to reward the next generation of leaders in renewables.

MSc (Research) and Visiting PhD students with relevant interests and expertise are welcome. Please feel free to contact me by email.

08/2015-07/2021, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

10/2019-10/2020, Visiting Ph.D. student, Fluid Dynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

08/2011-06/2015, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, College of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, China

Anup is a sustainability enthusiast specialising in renewable power generation in the electrical power system. His main areas of interest are in the resource-to-wire modelling and control of renewable power converters, distributed generation and smart grids.

• PhD in Electrical Power Systems, The University of Edinburgh, UK, 2012
• B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita University, India, 2007

• Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA
• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK

• Tutor and demonstrator on the MSc. Power System and Economics course
• Demonstrator on the 3rd year electrical machines lab
• Supervised four MSc dissertations on network integration and control of wave power farms

• Power systems modelling
• Renewable energy based distributed generation
• Wave-to-wire modelling and control of arrays of wave energy converters
• Current-to-wire modelling and control of arrays of tidal energy converters

Henry began his career in the energy business within the North Sea oil and gas industry and in 1998 he made the radical move into the emerging commercial marine renewables sector.

• 1994-1998 BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering: 1st class Honours
• 2004-2006 MBA Aberdeen Business School