Contact Dr Jerry Luo
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754687
- Email: Z.Luo@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Hydrogen
- Nanotechnology
- Renewable Energy
Background
Dr Jerry Luo is a Reader in Energy Storage and Harvesting at SWAG合集. His current research focuses on Renewable Energy and Energy Harvesting, including projects developing solar-to-hydrogen generation and researching on energy harvesting materials/devices. He has expertise in energy systems and devices, from materials research to system design and prototyping. He completed his PhD at the University of New South Wales (Australia). During PhD he was awarded a fellowship and worked at Technical University Darmstadt (Germany) as a visiting researcher. After his PhD he has been working in the universities in Australia and the SWAG合集, and joined Cranfield in 2016.
His research has been sponsored with funding over 拢3.6M, from EPSRC, Innovate SWAG合集, RAEng, HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund) and industry. He has been the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of 14 Innovate SWAG合集 projects, 1 EPSRC ICASE project collaborated with BAE Systems, and 1 EPSRC Researcher in Residence. He received an ICURe Award in 2019, a Golden Award for Academic Excellence in Hydrogen Research in 2024, and nominated for Earthshot Prize 2024. He has over over 60 publications and 5 patents. His current research group has 2 postdocs and 8 PhDs, and runs a laboratory well equipped for research on energy materials and devices.
Research opportunities
PhDs, MSc by Research, visiting academics and exchanged PhDs are welcome. You will be supported by my research group and laboratory, and involved in the exciting research projects.
If you are interested in the PhD study in my research group please contact me. PhD scholarships are available from time to time.
We recruit postdocs from time to time. Please contact me and we can discuss the opportunities.
Master placement, PhD exchanges, visiting academics please contact me to discuss the opportunities.
Current PhD students: 8 students
Current activities
1. Innovate SWAG合集 'Utilising green hydrogen to decarbonise the semiconductors industry' (PI, 拢209k, 2024 - 2026)
2. GFIL-TAF- HyWaves Local Green Hydrogen (PI, 拢50k, 2024)
3. British Council 'CPV for green hydrogen production' (PI, 拢40k, 2024 - 2025)
4. Innovate SWAG合集 'Shoreside Power from Optimised Hydrogen Lifecycle (SPOHL)' (PI, 拢151k, 2024 - 2025)
5. Innovate SWAG合集 Energy Catalyst mid-stage project 'Hybrid energy system for clean cooking and electricity generation' (2023 - 2024, 拢121k)
6. EPSRC ICASE PhD project sponsored by EPSRC and BAE Systems (PI and supervisor, 2020 -2024);
7. Innovate SWAG合集 Energy Catalyst project 'A CSP and TFG hybrid energy system' (PI and Project Lead, 拢299,918, 2020 - 2021, completed);
8. Innovate SWAG合集 project 'Development of a shortlist-and-test diagnostic platform for brucellosis in livestock' (PI, 拢266,946, 2019 - 2022, completed);
9. EPSRC Researcher in Residence ''Renewable energy integrated intelligent charging system for EV', EP/T517306/1, (PI, 拢49,781, 2019 - 2021, completed);
10. Innovate SWAG合集 project 'CoolerSun: creating a clean and reliable cooling, heating, water treatment and electricity' (PI, 2020, completed);
11. Innovate SWAG合集 project 'HH-Gen: High performance green hydrogen generation from solar energy' (Co-I, 拢311,153, 2020-2021, completed);
12. Innovate SWAG合集 project 'Second Life Batteries for Commercial Energy Use' (Co-I, 拢411,477, 2020-2021, completed);
13. Innovate SWAG合集 project 'Advanced grid services provided by optimised EV community and fleet charging' (Co-I, 拢200,595, 2020-2021, completed);
14. Innovate SWAG合集 project 'Development of a low carbon heating and cooling system with storage and gender-based temperature regulation for public and commercial buildings' (Co-I, 拢312,350, 2020-2021, completed);
15. Higher Education Innovation Fund 'Demonstration of Thermo-Foil-Generator (TFG) for Industrial Waste Heat Recovery' (Co-I, 2020, completed);
16. MSc Group project sponsored 'Renewable energy integrated base stations and their energy management' by Mobile Broadband Network Limited (Co-I, 2020, completed);
17. Innovate SWAG合集 ICURe Award 'Make sense of your sole' (PI, 2019, completed);
18. MSc Group project 'Detection system for overhead distribution cable positional faults' sponsored by SWAG合集 Power Networks Limited (Co-I, 2019, completed);
19. EPSRC eFutures sandpit 'Feasibility study Maternal IoT garment for foetal electrocardiogram' (PI, 2018, completed)
Clients
Public Clients:
- Innovate SWAG合集
- EPSRC
- Newton Fund
- The Higher Education Innovation Fund
- RAEng
Industrial Clients:
- BAE Systems
- Mobile Broadband Network Limited
- SWAG合集 Power Networks Limited
- Thermoelectric Conversion Systems
- TFG Global Power
- FocalSun
- Biotangents
- IceRobotics
