Prof. Ercang Luo was born in 1967, and is now working at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS. He obtained his Bachelor degree from the Department of Thermal Energy of Tsinghua University in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree from the Cryogenic Laboratory of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. Then, he joined the Cryogenic Laboratory of CAS as a research scientist, and was promoted a full professor of TIPC/CAS in 2001. In 2006, he was selected the outstanding young scholar of the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China. Since 2009 he has been the head of CAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics. In 2015, he was elected to be the deputy director of TIPC/CAS. Also, he is currently servicing several international and domestic academic communities’ member such as IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration) A1 Commission, ICEC(International Cryogenic Engineering Committee), and ISEC(International Stirling Engine Committee), and the vice president of Chines Association of Refrigeration (CAR), etc. His R&D activities have mainly involved with various refrigeration and engine technologies including mixed-gas Joule-Thomson refrigerator, pulse tube cryocooler and thermoacoustically-driven refrigerator and heat pump, free-piston Stirling electrical generator and cryocooler/heat pump, etc.

Prof.Luo has published over 400 peer-reviewed international journal or conference papers and has been issued over 200 patents. He has received several awards, including a Silver Medal of China National Technology Invention Prize in 2006 and the Hugangfu Prize of Chinese Association of Physics in 2007.

Plenary talk: Advancements in Thermoacoustics: State of the art and perspectives