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.

• Key R&D Programme – International Cooperation, Gansu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Three-dimensional spatiotemporal variability and bidirectional feedback mechanisms of atmospheric radicals and fine particulate matter, 2025-2027
• Horizon Europe – The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Frugal Zero-Emission Vehicles for the Urban Passenger challenge (ZEV-UP), 2024-2027
• 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
• EPSRC, Testing and validating an innovative method to optimise the control strategy of diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration with industrial stakeholders, 2023-2024
• International Research Collaboration Programme, Department of Science and Technology of Henan Province, China, Mechanisms of surface adsorption of N2O and NH3 on the environmental evolution characteristics of diesel soot particles. 2022-2024
• Open Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Engines, Study on the fragmentation mechanism of soot particles from diesel engines during combustion. 2021-2023
• Horizon 2020 – The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Nanoparticle Emissions from the Transport Sector: Health and Policy Impacts (nPETS), 2021-2024
• Highways England – Highways England Traffic Management Algorithm Review (HETMAR), 2021-2022
• Horizon 2020 – The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Modify Drivers’ behaviour to Adapt for Lower Emissions (MODALES), 2019-2022

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