Dr Jian Song PhD

Dr Jian Song

School of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
j.song.2@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Chemical Engineering
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Jian Song is Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, University 麻豆精选. His research focuses on clean and sustainable energy technologies, which covers thermal fluids, processes, devices and systems, with an emphasis on multi-scale integrated design and optimisation of energy conversion and storage options, aiming at enhancing energy utilisation efficiency across conventional and renewable resources, and contributing to energy harvesting and sustainability.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, Tsinghua University, 2018
  • BEng in Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2013
  • BSc in Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 2013

Biography

Dr Jian Song is Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, University 麻豆精选, Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, and Managing Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering.

Dr Jian Song has been acting as the Deputy Group Leader of Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory at Imperial prior to joining Birmingham in May 2023. Dr Jian Song received his PhD Degree from Tsinghua University in 2018 and has been awarded Zijing Scholar Fellowship, Outstanding PhD Thesis by Chinese Society for Internal Combustion Engines (CSICE), and Wu Zhonghua Outstanding Postgraduate Award. Dr Jian Song visited the Whittle Laboratory at University of Cambridge in 2016 and participated the internship in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in 2015.

Dr Jian Song’s research focuses on clean and sustainable energy technologies, which covers thermal fluids, processes, devices and systems, with an emphasis on multi-scale integrated design and optimisation of energy conversion and storage options, aiming at enhancing energy utilisation efficiency across conventional and renewable resources, and contributing to energy harvesting and sustainability.







Postgraduate supervision

Dr Jian Song is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Thermo-mechanical energy conversion and storage
  • Thermal energy (heat and cold) storage
  • Renewable energy technologies
  • Industrial decarbonisation
Please feel free to contact Dr Jian Song for more details if you are interested in studying any of these topics.

Research

Multi-scale integrated design and optimisation

  • Novel thermal fluids
  • High-performance energy devices/components
  • Effective integration and operation

Clean energy technologies

  • Waste-heat recovery
  • Hybrid renewable energy systems
  • Whole-system analysis

Other activities

  • Managing Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Member of Climate Growth Leadership Network

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Liu, Q, Song, J & Duan, Y 2025, '', Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, vol. 69, 105952.

Feng, Y, Zhang, Q, Song, J, Liu, Y, Xu, KJ, He, ZX & Markides, CN 2025, '', Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 268, 125856.

Zhao, Y, Xie, Y, Song, J, Guo, J, Li, W & Deng, Z 2025, '', International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 239, 126438.

Wang, M, Zhou, J, Ji, J, Song, J & Ji, W 2025, '', Applied Energy, vol. 390, 125852.

Zhao, Y, Xie, Y, Song, J, Wang, K, Cui, L & Zhang, H 2025, '', Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 262, 125290.

Huang, J, Zhao, Y, Song, J, Wang, K, Zhu, P, Liu, B & Sun, P 2025, '', Applied Energy, vol. 377, no. Part C, 124652.

Olympios, AV, Song, J, Ziolkowski, A, Shanmugam, VS & Markides, CN 2024, '', Energy, vol. 291, 130171.

He, Y, Song, J, Guo, S, Zhou, J & Markides, CN 2024, '', Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 84, 110873.

Li, W, Liu, M, Wang, X, Jiang, J, Gao, K, Zeng, C, Liu, Y & Song, J 2024, '', Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 319, 118966.

Iqbal, Q, Fang, S, Xu, Z, Yao, Y, Song, J, Qiu, L, Zhao, Y, Markides, CN & Wang, K 2024, '', Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 89, 111630.

Zhao, Y, Huang, J, Song, J & Ding, Y 2024, '', Energy, vol. 296, 131148.

Fan, G, Song, J, Zhang, J, Fu, Z, Gong, X, Dai, Y & Markides, CN 2024, '', Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 236, 121715.

Conference contribution

Lai, F, Zhang, T, Song, J & Zhou, J 2024, . in 2024 3rd International Conference on Energy Transition in the Mediterranean Area (SyNERGY MED). International Conference on Energy Transition in the Mediterranean Area (SyNERGY MED), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1-5, 3rd International Conference on Energy Transition in the Mediterranean Area, SyNERGY MED 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, 21/10/24.

Editorial

Zhao, Y, Song, J, Zhu, P, Wang, W, Song, Z & Ding, Y 2024, '', Green Energy and Resources, vol. 1, no. 4, 100048.

Review article

Huang, J, Zhao, Y, Song, J, Huang, S, Wang, K, Rao, Z, Zhao, Y, Wang, L, Wan, X, Fei, Y & Markides, CN 2025, '', Frontiers in Energy.