Professor Joseph Yan Ph.D

About

Joseph Yan obtained the BEng and MEng degrees in Engineering Thermophysics in 1986 and 1988, respectively, from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was a research engineer and led the Fundamental Research Division at Xi’an High Voltage Apparatus Research Institute (now XIHARI) before he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool as a postgraduate research student in 1994. Since he obtained the PhD degree in 1998, he has been a PDRA, Lecturer (2001), Senior Lecturer (2012), Reader (2014) and Professor in Applied Electromagnetism (2017). Joseph’s research interests and expertise are within atmospheric gas discharges and plasma physics, switching arcs and SF6 alternative technology, computational fluid dynamics modelling of equilibrium and no