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Xiaolin Wang, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Engineering, University of Tasmania. He enjoys his research in cooling and power engineering, energy storage and conversion, desalination, and utilization of renewable energy. He is named as Field Leader in Thermal Science by the Australian Research Magazine in 2018. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia. Xiaolin worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore from 2002 to 2005. In 2003, he worked as a visiting scientist at the University of Siegen, Germany funded by DAAD, Germany. He conducted his research on adsorption characteristics of silica gel applied in adsorption chillers to convert thermal energy to cooling. In 2005, he joined the School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Australia. In 2012, he joined the School of Engineering, University of Tasmania. He is now a Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems. His national and international reputation in thermal science is evidenced by his achievements and awards including the DAAD visiting fellowship by DAAD Germany in 2003 and Ludwig Mond Prize 2005, by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) of United Kingdom, the Australian China Young Scientist Exchange Program award in 2009 and the Australian Japan Emerging Research Leader Program award in 2016 by the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). He received “Dean’s Award” for outstanding research performance in 2016. He is Subject Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering, Associate Editor of IMechE Part E: Journal of Process Engineering, Scientific reports and Frontiers in Built Environment, Topic Editor of Applied Sciences, Energies, sustainability and thermos, Editorial board member for five other international journals. He has completed many national/international research projects with a total value of more than $7 million. He is also a member of the Blue Economic CRC ($329 million). He published more than 240 international journal and conference papers which received a total citation of 5600 with a H-index of 41 and i10 index of 115.

Economic Resource Recovery From Biomass Wastes.- Implementation of SNI Standard Freight Software With Social Media Platform for Gorontalo Indonesia SME Product Advantages.- The Improvement on the Efficiency of Photovoltaic Module Using Water Cooling.- Design and Development of a Sugarcane Juice Extracting Machine (Trapiche) for Small Scale Farmers.- Hydroelectricity: Environmental Impact and Future Prospects.- Analysis of Soft Story and Torsional Irregularity Factors in the Seismic.- Performance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings by Nonlinear Static Analysis