Dr. Janie Ling Chin is Assistant Professor and an early career researcher in the Department of Engineering of Durham University, UK. She was awarded a PhD in 2016 when she worked in Newcastle University, UK after spending 5 years (part-time) in her study focussing on life cycle assessment (LCA) of conventional, retrofit and state-of-the-art power systems for cargo ships. In conjunction to her PhD study, she led the research on Environment Safety and Risk Analysis in a FP7 project “INOvative Energy MANagement System for Cargo SHIP” (266082; total funding: €3,341,187).
In addition to LCA, Janie’s areas of research also cover energy systems integration, hydrogen technology, carbon capture, storage, and utilisation, and thermal management including liquid desiccant technology. She has been Researcher Co-Investigator, Co-Investigator or Investigator in a number of projects funded by the UK Research and Innovation and European Commission, as follows:
- UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub (EP/Y024605/1; total funding: £ 7,813,341; September 2023 – March 2027)
- Protected Cultivation of Horticultural Crops: Setting a New Standard (10054907; total funding: £499,947; April 2023 – December 2024)
- Growing Teesside’s Hydrogen Economy and Catalysing a Just Transition to Net Zero (total funding: £11,109,202; March 2023 – February 2027)
- Demonstration of a Digitized Energy System Integration across Sectors Enhancing Flexibility and Resilience towards an Efficient, Sustainable, Cost-optimised, Affordable, Secure and Stable Energy Supply (10040861; total funding: €9,621,673; October 2022 – September 2026)
- Energy Recovery and Utilisation (total funding: £57,983.05; October 2022 – December 2023)
- Network+ for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Energy Research Community (EP/W033771/1; total funding: £1,006,946; September 2022 – August 2026)
- Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (EP/V027050/1; total funding: £19,903,412; July 2021 – June 2023)
- Network+ for Heating and Cooling Research (EP/S032134/1; total funding: £1,159,698; October 2020 – September 2024)
- Network+ for Hydrogen-fuelled Transportation (EP/S032134/1; total funding: £966,316; October 2019 – August 2024)
- UK-India Foundation Industries Sustainable Thermal Energy Management Collaboration (10019361; total funding: £79,923; November 2021 – March 2022)
- Overview on Hydrogen Scalability, Transport, Storage and Distribution (total funding: £23,500; October 2021 – November 2021)
- The Road to Hydrogen: A Hydrogen Fuel Cell HGV Demonstration Project (10011534; total funding: £411,540; September 2021 – March 2022)
- A Decarbonisation Plan for the Church of England (total funding: £34,165; April 2021 – March 2022)
Janie has organised and delivered more than 20 national and international stakeholder engagement events, acting as a member of Organising and Scientific Committees for a few international conferences. She has been involved in delivering 10 special issues on specific themes published by Elsevier. She is champion for equality, diversity, and inclusion.
