Professor Ni Meng
Head of Unit
Associate Head of FCE
Chair Professor of Energy Science and Technology
The Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering (BEEE) celebrates the announcement that Professor Ni Meng has been appointed the new Head of BEEE, starting on 1 July 2025.
Prior to joining BEEE, Professor Ni Meng received his Bachelor (2000) and Master (2003) degrees in Aero-engine Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and received The Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in 2007. Professor Ni then stayed at HKU as a Post-doctoral researcher for two years before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in July 2009. Professor Ni was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and then to Full Professor and Associate Head (Research) in July 2016. He was appointed as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment in July 2021. Professor Ni conducted collaborative research at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, in 2017 as a Humboldt Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). He received the Innovation Award from China Energy Research Society in 2022 and RGC Senior Research Fellow award in 2023. He is a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
Professor Ni Meng’s research interests include fuel cells, hydrogen energy, rechargeable metal-air batteries, and electrochemical systems for low-grade waste heat utilization. Professor Ni is an active reviewer for over 80 academic journals, including Science, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Joule, Advanced Materials, and others. He served as Associate Editor for Science Bulletin from 2015 to 2017. Currently, he is a Co-Editor-in-Chief for Energy Reviews (Elsevier), a Senior Editor for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) and e-Prime (Elsevier), and an Associate Editor for International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis), Energy Storage (Wiley), and Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Wiley).
