Rate My Professor Yunting Ge

Professor Yunting Ge is Professor of Building Services Engineering in the School of the Built Environment and Architecture at London South Bank University, where he also serves as Director of the Centre for Civil and Building Services Engineering and is affiliated with the Energy, Materials and Environment Research Centre. He earned his BSc and MSc degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University and his PhD from Tsinghua University between 1993 and 1997 in the fields of thermofluids, energy, hydrogen, and built environment. Prior to his appointment at London South Bank University, Ge held the position of Professor at the University of South Wales from 2018 to 2020 and Reader at Brunel University London from 2005 to 2018, along with earlier roles as lecturer and senior lecturer at those institutions. His career encompasses more than 20 years of research and development in energy conversion technologies, with periodic positions at Brunel University London and the University of South Wales.

Ge's research specializations encompass built environments, energy conservation technologies, hydrogen systems, and thermofluids, focusing on the development of high-fidelity models for buildings, energy systems, and components. Notable contributions include a CO₂ transcritical compressor model integrated into EnergyPlus and heat-exchanger design software tools adopted by UK companies, as well as an energy-optimised control system model for supermarket refrigeration and HVAC operations. As head of the LSBU Hydrogen Lab, established in 2026 with state-of-the-art metal-hydride test rigs, he leads investigations into thermochemical systems for industrial waste heat recovery, enabling thermal energy transport for heating and cooling. He has secured over £7.133 million in competitive research funding as Principal Investigator from EPSRC and Innovate UK, including the H2-Heat project (EP/T022760/1, £979,291, 2021–2024) for innovative hydrogen technologies and a Smart Grant for high-pressure metal hydride hydrogen storage (£1,029,423, 2022–2024). A Fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration, he serves as President of IIR Commission E1 and Associate Editor for Energy Reports. Ge has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed journal publications and international conference papers, including 'Performance Analysis of a Single-Stage Metal Hydride Hydrogen Compression System' (2025), 'Enhancing Wind Energy Utilization Efficiency by Optimizing a Darrieus Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with Auxiliary Blades' (2026), and 'Energy and exergy analysis of a biomass-CO2 transcritical brayton cycle' (2025). His scholarship has attracted over 4,000 citations on Google Scholar, and he has supervised more than 13 PhD researchers and postdoctoral fellows.