1978-1982 Bachelor of Engineering, Specialty: Turbomachinery, Dept. of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

1982-1985 Master of Science (in the same institution as above)

1990-1991 German study at Xi'an University of Foreign Languages and the Goethe-Institute in Bremen, Germany

1991-1997 PhD candidate, Institute of Heat Transfer and Air Conditioning, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Renz.

1977-1978 Working in the rural areas of Guilin, Guangxi Province

1985-1997 Lecture, Dept. of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University

1991-1997 Research assistant of RWTH Aachen University, Germany

1997 Working at Steinmueller GmbH, the large-scale power station equipment manufacturing company of Germany

1998-present Associate Professor, Professor (as doctoral supervisor), Tenure-track Professor, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University

2000 Visiting professor in Prof. M. Horio’s lab., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

2003 Visiting professor in Institute of Heat Transfer and Air Conditioning, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Renz

2004 Visiting professor in Prof. T. Inaba’s lab., Chuo University, Japan

2004-2015 Director of Institute of Thermal Engineering, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University

1999 Secretary-General of the 4th International Symposium on Coal Combustion (ISCC), Beijing, China

2011 Chairman of the 7th ISCC in Harbin, China

2015 Chairman of Organization Committee for the 8th ISCC in Beijing

2022-present: Researcher of the Shanxi Institute of Huairou Laboratory

Council members of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society

Chairman of the Industrial Furnace Branch of the China Mechanical Engineering Society

Member of the Academic Committee of the Sichuan Province Combustion Engineering Technology Research Center

Turbulent combustion in engines and in supercritical carbon dioxide

Numerical simulation of gas-solid multiphase flow, reaction and combustion in circulating fluidized bed

National Science and Technology Major Project：Research on Advanced Numerical Methods and Modeling for Low-Pollution Combustors

Key Project of Huairou Laboratory: Flexible Power Generation Technology by Circulating Fluidized Beds

First Prize of the "Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award" of Beijing

First Prize of the "Teaching Achievement Award" of Tsinghua University

Published more than 250 papers in Journals, as well as related patents and software copyrights.

Authored a monograph in German titled "Euler-Euler Numerical Simulation of Gas-Solid Two-Phase Fluid Dynamics in Circulating Fluidized Beds".

One of editors of professional core textbooks "Principles and Calculations of Boilers" (3rd Edition), "The Chinese Electrical Engineering Dictionary" - the chapter on Combustors and the academic monograph of Tsinghua University "Selected Translations of Prandtl's Memorial Reports".