Dr. Liwu FAN is a Research Professor, supported by the "100 Talents Program" since March 2016, in the Department of Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University. He is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Thermal Science and Power Systems, and is also affiliated with the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization. 

Dr. FAN got his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University on August 2011, under the guidance of Alumni Chair Professor Jay M. Khodadadi, who is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a former Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. During his doctoral study, he visited the US DoE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) from August 2009 to January 2010 as an intern student, working in the Energy Storage group led by Dr. Ahmad A. Pesaran.  Upon graudation, he spent two years from October 2011 to September 2009 to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University under the guidance of Professor Kefa CEN, who is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He then joined the faculty in the Department of Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University and got promoted to Associate Professor on December 2013. With the financial support by the China Scholarship Council, he went to the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work as a visiting scholar for one year from September 2014 to September 2015, under the guidance of TEPCO Chair Professor Jacopo Buongiorno, who is the Deputy Head of the department and a Fellow of ANS.