Yabin Liu is a Lecturer in Engineering in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London.

Yabin obtained his doctoral degree from Tsinghua University in 2021, receiving both the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis prize and the Beijing Outstanding Graduate prize. He studied at the University of Cambridge as a sponsored visiting PhD student for one year. From September 2021 to August 2023, he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh on the EPSRC Morphing Blades project and explored gust mitigation through morphing surfaces through fluid-structure interaction simulation. Afterwards, he started his independent research journey as the first 1851 Brunel Fellow at Edinburgh. From November 2024, he moved to Cambridge as an Assistant Research Professor and 1851 Brunel Fellow, and he joined King’s from April 2026.

He has a distinguished peer-reviewed publication record, with 3 ESI Highly-Cited/Hot papers, and was honoured as a ScholarGPS Highly-Ranked Scholar (top 0.05% globally). He won many prestigious scholarships and prizes, including the HiWin Doctoral Dissertation Award, the most prestigious prize for PhD graduates in Mechanical Engineering in China, and the Chung-Hua Wu Outstanding Graduate Prize, the highest domestic honour in his major with ~9 students awarded annually. He was the winner of the Young Professionals Green Energy Awards 2024 and shortlisted as a finalist for the Scottish Green Energy Awards 2024, the UK's largest celebration of the renewable energy industry.

He holds the highly competitive 1851 Brunel Fellowship (2023-2026), which only has one awardee annually. As PI, he has secured a Royal Society ISPF International Collaboration Award, an EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funding, an EPSRC IAA Innovation Award, and a Lund University 'Get Started Funding' in recent years, and he is closely collaborating with academics in the UK, EU, and Asia, including Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Birmingham, TU Delft, Lund, and Tokyo, and several leading green energy industry stakeholders. He serves as Deputy of Early-Career Research Committee in the UK Supergen ORE Hub.

Research Interests

• Wind and tidal energy
• Turbomachinery and aerial/underwater vehicles in future transport
• Flow control with innovative structural designs
• Fluid-structure interaction and bio-inspired fluid mechanics
• Vortex dynamics and coherent turbulence structures
• Vortex-induced cavitation, wakes, noise

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