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Dr Ye Liu

Dr Ye Liu

Profile

Current positions

  • Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds
  • Group member for Spatial Modelling and Dynamics, Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds

Research interests

Key research interests:

  • Vehicle exhaust emissions, especially for soot particles
  • Vehicle non-exhaust emissions, such as brake and tyre wear emissions
  • Environmental and health assessment of vehicle exhaust and non-exhaust emissions
  • Sustainable transport and the environment

Research Projects:

I have been involved in/led several research projects (as PI or Co-I) funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the Royal Society, etc. The projects for which I served as Principal Investigator (PI) are as follows:

  • International Exchange Project funded by the Royal Society, Non-exhaust PM emissions from electric vehicles: source characteristics and their influence on resuspension and dispersion patterns, 2024-2026, PI.
  • EPSRC, Testing and validating an innovative method to optimise the control strategy of diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration with industrial stakeholders, 2023-2024, PI.
  • Open Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Engines, Study on the fragmentation mechanism of soot particles from diesel engines during combustion. 2021-2023, PI.

Research groups and institutes

  • Spatial Modelling and Dynamics

Qualifications

  • PhD, Power machinery and Engineering, Tianjin University, 2019

Student education

PhD student supervision:

  • Mengyuan Xu (2023-)
  • Cut Dona Kordelia (2023-)

Master student supervision:

  • Haoyue Hu (2024-)
  • Xiaoyu Zhao (2024-)
  • Jinyu Ma (2024-)
  • Yizhe Zhang (2024-)
  • Yitong Liu (2023-2024)
  • Weihan Li (2023-2024)
  • Bowen Zhou (2023-2024)
  • Haoyuan Gao (2023-2024)
  • Yining Wang (2023-2024)
  • Zhicheng Hao (2023-2024)

Visiting PhD:

  • Ruisen Jiang (2021-2022)
  • Xue Wu (2022-2023)
  • Wenjing Wang (2025– )

Research groups and institutes

  • Spatial Modelling and Dynamics
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