Professor Yulong Ding holds founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering and is the founder of the University of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) and Birmingham Industrial Decarbonisation Taskforce (BIDT). He has published 500+ papers in peer-reviewed journals (GS H-Index ~103) and filed 100+ patents. He is an inventor of liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of technology developments (commercialised by Highview Power). He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacturing technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with total installations exceeding ~1000MW / ~8GWh so far. His work on passively cooled container technology has led to large scale commercial demonstration for cold chain applications. His work on perovskite-based CO2 splitting led to the creation of PeroCycle Ltd. Professor Ding is a member of the UK Royal Society Net Zero Panel and currently leads the UK EPSRC Supergen Energy Storage Network Plus Programme. He led a Royal Society briefing note on heating and cooling decarbonisation in ‘Climate Change: Science and Solutions’ for COP26 (2021), and technical part of IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) Thermal Energy Storage Outlook 2030 (2020). His work has been recognised by the election by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to receive a Humboldt Research Award (2023); Institute of Refrigeration J&E Hall Gold Medal (2023), IChemE Clean Energy Medal (2021), election to Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2020); IChemE Global Awards in three categories of Energy, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement (2019).