Prof. Dr. Xin Tu

Xin Tu is a Professor and Chair in Plasma Catalysis at the University of Liverpool. He received PhD in Physics from Université de Rouen (CORIA CNRS UMR 6614, France) and PhD in Thermal Engineering from Zhejiang University (China) in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, from 2008 to 2009. In September 2009, he joined the University of Manchester (UK), working as a Research Associate in the School of Chemistry. His research mainly focuses on plasma chemistry and plasma catalysis for environmental clean-up and sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. He has published 10 book chapters and over 210 peer-reviewed journal papers (H-index 66, >12700 citations) in leading international journals. He is the inventor of 5 international patents associated with plasma production of fuels and chemicals. He has given over 90 invited talks at major international conferences and chaired/co-chaired 7 international conferences.