Professor Kai Luo holds the Chair of Energy Systems and is the Head of Energy and the Environment Research Division in UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a fellow of several leading learned societies in his fields. He studied in the Engineering Department of Cambridge University and obtained his PhD in 1992. He conducted postdoctoral research in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Imperial College London from 1991 to 1993. He subsequently worked for Queen Mary, University of London, and became a full professor of the University of London in 2002. Between 2004 and 2013, he was Chair of Energy Systems in the University of Southampton, where he created and led a large Energy Technology Research Group, and developed highly successful MSc programmes in the energy field. Professor Luo has collaborated with colleagues in the UK and across the world. He has supervised a large number of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom have become leaders in academia and industry. His research activities have been funded by major organisations such as the EPSRC, the EU, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering as well as industry.