Yansong Zhao

Field of work

Dr. Yansong Zhao is a full professor in chemical engineering. His research interests are ionic liquids, renewable energy (new generation batteries and supercapacitors), biotechnology, new medicine design, CO₂ capture, polymer and catalysis science. He is Group Leader of Ionic Liquids and Advanced Technology Reserch Group at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. He has >110 publications. The peer-reviewed journal articles have been published in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Energy & Fuels, Fuels, AIChE J., Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control, RSC Advances, Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, J. Chem. Eng. Data, Fluid Phase Equilib., J. Therm. Anal. Calorim., Chem. Eng. Technol., Journal of Molecular Liquids, Micro & Nano Letters, Current Organic Chemistry, Science China Chemistry, J. Dispersion Science and Technology, Computers and Applied Chemistry. These journal articles have been cited for >1800 times according to Google Scholar; h index is 23.

Please feel free to contact me (yansong.zhao@hvl.no) if you are interested to work or study at my research group. We have opportunities for bachelor and master lelvel projects. In addiiton, we have possibilities for PhD and postdoctoral research fellow projects.

On going PhD projects at Yansong's research group: 

PhD project 1: PhD project in battery technology

PhD project 2: PhD project in geothermal energy storage

 
Link of homepage of research group (Ionic Liquids and Advanced Technology Reserch Group) is as follows: https://www.hvl.no/en/research/group/ionic-liquid-and-advanced-technology/

The list of selected publications is as follows:

Personal webpage 1: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yansong_Zhao/reputation

Personal webpage 2: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sLwZKTQAAAAJ&hl=en

Personal webpage 3: https://wo.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/wa/fres?sort=ar&pnr=417178&la=no&action=sok

In addition, he is a reviewer for project submitted to U. S. Department of Energy. He is also a reviewer for the journals of Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Energy & Fuels, Fuels, Langmuir, Electrochimica Acta, Advanced Functional Materials, Separation Science and Technology, Mini-review in organic chemistry, Letters in Organic Chemistry, Open Physics, Journal of Chemical Engineering&Data, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering and etc. In average, Yansong reviews ca. 30 peer-review articles every year. 

Yansong Zhao's teaching work is relevant to chemical engineering. He is the teacher for the courses of: " Unit operation of Chemical engineering: Heat transfer (KJE203)", "Energy Storage (KJE204)", "Battery Technology (KJE205)", and " Electrochemistry for Batteries, Electrolyzers and Fuel Cell Systems (MAS534)".

Work/Education Experiences

26.01.2024-Present: Full professor (permanent position) at Department of Safety, Chemistry and Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

05.2019-Present: Leader of Ionic liquids and Advanced Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

21.09.2017-25.01.2024: Associate professor (permanent position) at Department of Safety, Chemistry and Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

14.08.2014-20.09.2017: Post doctor research fellow (Full time) at Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Feb.2017-Aug.2017: Visiting scientist at Helmholtz Institute Ulm, Germany

14.12.2013-13.08.2014 Researcher at Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

07.07.2011-13.12.2013 PhD Candidate at Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (He received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in December 2013)

Aug. 2008-Jun. 2011 Master student at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences and received his master degree in Chemical Engineering

Oct. 2007-Aug. 2008 Graduation Project for Bachelor Degree at Group of Ionic Liquids Clean Process and Energy-saving, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Sep. 2004-Jun. 2008 Bachelor student at College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University and received his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology

Underviser i 

• Varmetransport og varmeoverføring (KJE203)
• Energilagring (KJE204)
• Batteriteknologi (KJE205)
• Elektrokjemi for batteri, elektrolyzer og brenselceller (MAS534)

Forskar på 

• Ionic liquids
• Renewable energy
• New generation battery
• Biotechnology
• Life science
• Solar cells
• Supercapacitors
• Nanotechnology
• CO2 capture
• Oil & gas
• Catalysis science
• New medicine design

Forskargrupper

• Laboratory of Process Chemistry
• Group of Ionic Liquids and Advanced Technology