Dr. Bofeng Bai

Bofeng Bai received the B.Eng. degree in fluid machinery from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, in 1993, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Power Engineering & Engineering Thermophysics from XJTU in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He started his academic career as a Lecturer at XJTU in 1999, as Professor since 2007, and as Leading Professor since 2015. He serves as the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering and leads research group of Advanced Energy Power Multiphase Flow (AEPMF). He has won China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists. He is currently the secretary general of the multiphase flow branch of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, the deputy chairman of the heat exchanger safety and energy efficiency committee, and the deputy secretary general of the hydrogen energy equipment committee of the China Special Technology Promotion Association. Prof. Bai has been serving as the Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (Proc. IMech E Part C) since 2019, Journal of Measurement since 2020, Advisory Board member of Physics of Fluids from 2023-2025.

His primary research interests focus on multiphase flow fundamentals and applications in energy engineering, power engineering, thermal engineering and petroleum engineering. He has authored and co-authored more than 270 papers published in international journals and more than 200 papers in conference proceedings. He chaired and co-chaired 8 international academic conferences or symposiums and delivered 30 keynote speeches. His research results have won 1 second prize of national technological invention awards and 4 first prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.