RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Green buildings, energy efficiency, turbulence modelling, urban energy and climate

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• BEng (Hons.) Mechanical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia (2009)

• Ph. D (Mechanical Engineering), School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia (2013)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

• Subsea Engineer, Shell Global Solutions, Malaysia (2014 – 2016)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2016 – 2018).

• Casual academic staff, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia (2010 – 2013)

HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS

• Special Recognition Award, Shell Global Solutions, 2015

• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research – Major Research Area: Energy, 2013

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATION

1. G.E. Lau and K. Ngan, Analysing urban ventilation in building arrays with the age spectrum and mean age of pollutants, Building and Environment, vol. 131, pp. 288-305, 2018.

2. G.E. Lau, E. Sanvicente, G.H. Yeoh, V. Timchenko, M. Fossa, C. Ménézo, et al., Modelling of natural convection in vertical and tilted photovoltaic applications, Energy and Buildings, vol. 55, pp. 810-822, 2012.

3. G.E. Lau, G.H. Yeoh, V. Timchenko and J.A. Reizes, Application of dynamic global-coefficient subgrid-scale models to turbulent natural convection in an enclosed tall cavity, Physics of Fluids, vol. 24, pp. 094105, 2012.

4. G.E. Lau, G.H. Yeoh, V. Timchenko and J.A. Reizes, Large-eddy simulation of turbulent natural convection flows, in a book titled: “Advances in Engineering Research”, Vol. 5, edited by V.M. Petrova, Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2012, pp. 1-58.