Proceedings of 2024 International Conference on Energy Engineering: Volume I

Prof. Lu joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an assistant professor in 2006 after working for Parsons Brinckerhoff (Asia) Ltd for 2 years, and was promoted to Professor in July 2018. As a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics in Engineering and a World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University in Energy, Ir Prof. Lu is a well established researcher in renewable energy and building energy engineering. Ir Prof. Lu has published 6 books/handbook chapters and over 340 SCI-cited journal papers, and her work has been financially supported by the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (GRF, NFSC/RGC, CRF(Co-PI), HKPDF), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission (ITF), Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department (ECF), Hong Kong Policy Innovation and Coordination Office (PPR), Hong Kong Construction Industry Institute (CII), Dept of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, the Society of Hong Kong Scholars and the China National Postdoctoral Council (Hong Kong Scholars), Hong Kong Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) and various industry partners including Sinopec. Ir Prof. Lu has been the recipient of prestigious awards mostly as the first awardee. Currently, she is serving local industry and profession as chairman of the Energy Institute (Hong Kong Branch) and vice president of Solar Energy Society of Hong Kong, and serving local government as The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Cleaner Production Partnership Programme, Task Force Member for Energy Management System Certification under Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) and as Working Group Member for Building Energy Code (Electrical), Building Energy Code (Energy Audit) and Building Energy Code (Lighting) under Buildings Energy Efficiency Ordinance. She is the Section Editor-in-Chief (Energy Sustainability) of International Journal of Sustainability (SCI), Section Editor for Science Progress (SCI), Associate Editor for Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Guest Editor for Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy, Renewable Energy, and Energy. She is also sitting on the Editorial Board of several prestigious journals, including Energy, Energy and Built Environment, Energy Storage and Saving (ENSS), etc. She is/was the Guest Professor of China University of Petroleum (Huadong) and Shandong Jianzhu University (China), UM Macao Distinguished Visiting Scholar (UM Macao Talent Program) and visiting professor of Cracow University of Technology (Poland).