Prof. Bo Zhou who is currently an associate Professor and doctoral supervisor at SUSTech, obtained his doctoral degree from Lund University, Sweden. And thereafter, he work as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University and the Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, USA.
His research interests are in the field of turbulent combustion, laser-based diagnostics for reacting system and novel energy technologies. He won the Chinese Goverment Award for Outstadning Doctoral Students Aboard in 2014, the prestigious Bernard Lewis Fellowship by the International Combustion Institute in 2016, and was selected as the section-chair for the turbulent combustion colloqium of the 37th International Symposium on Combustion, and section-chair for combustion diagnostics colloqium for the 38th International Symposium on Combustion. He has published more than 40 papers in top-rank journals, and is an author for a book chapter in Cambridge Press.
12/2020 – Present Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
09/2019 – 12/2020 Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
04/2017 – 08/2019 Postdoctoral Fellow – Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
03/2015 – 03/2017 Postdoctoral Fellow – Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University, Sweden
2015 Ph.D. in Combustion Physics, Lund University, Sweden
2011 M.Sc. in Physics, Lund University, Sweden
2009 B.Sc. in Physics, Tianjin University of Technolog, P.R. China
(1) Advanced Technology for Power & Propulsion (including turbulent combustion, supersonic combustion, plasma-assisted combustion，Catalytic combustion and zero-carbon fuels)
(2) Functional Nano-materials Synthesis Li-battery/Fuel Cell Application
(3) Laser-based Diagnostics
(4) Image Processing Algorithm
Prof. Zhou has participated in multiple major research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council, the European Research Council, the Department of Energy of the United States.
In the field of laser diagnostics, he has developed diagnostic capabilities for instantaneously visualizing ultra-low concentration radicals/species, temperature field, high-speed tomographic PIV velocimetry etc. Most of these developments have been the first and important advancements in the community that provide a powerful and unique tool for non-intrusively probing turbulent reacting flows.
In the field of turbulent combustion, he contributed to the high Karlovitz combustion regime which is relatively unexplored but highly relevant to industrial combustor operation. His study provided the first documented experimental evidence of the existence of the distributed reactions which is fundamentally distinct from the conventional “flamelet” concept. These findings have profound impact on underrstand the combustion in jet engine and gas turbines that are used for power generation.
