Dr. Gu is a Senior Lecturer in School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton UK. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham on material process modelling and further developed his research career at the University of Cambridge as post-doc researcher. Prior to joining Southampton, he created a multidisciplinary CFD Research Group in Aston University UK. The group has a range of research activities in the areas of materials and chemical processing by solving complicated flows involving combustion, heat transfer, chemical reaction, multiscale and multiphase.His most recent interest is to develop CFD models for biomass thermal conversion processes and currently leads the biomass and bioenergy research in Energy Technology Research Group of University of Southampton.