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Yali Tang is an Associate Professor in the Power and Flow group within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), contributing significantly to the field of Engineering. She obtained her Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, in 2011. She then pursued her PhD at TU/e under the supervision of Prof. dr. ir. J.A.M. (Hans) Kuipers in the Multiphase Reactors group, completing it in 2015 with a thesis entitled ‘Direct Numerical Simulations of Hydrodynamics in Dense Gas-Solid Flows’. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a postdoc in the same group, focusing on the micro-mechanics of wet solids in gas-solid contactors. In 2017, she transitioned to the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in the Power and Flow group, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025.

Her research centers on fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in engineering applications involving multiphase flows and physicochemical conversions. She develops and utilizes advanced computational models for interphase interactions and interfacial transport, complemented by experimental validations. Targeted applications include the Iron Power technology, green steel production, and alkaline water electrolysis for hydrogen generation, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 13 (Climate Action). Yali Tang has published extensively, with key works such as ‘Solutal Marangoni effects on growing hydrogen and oxygen bubbles in alkaline water electrolysis’ (Chemical Engineering Science, 2025), ‘Liquid film formation during bubble collision’ (Chemical Engineering Science, 2025), ‘Assessing the effect of capillary suction in foam front displacement within porous media’ (Transport in Porous Media, 2025), and ‘X-ray measurements of gas distribution in a zero gap alkaline water electrolyzer’ (International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2025). Her scholarship has accumulated 985 citations per Scopus. Notable awards include the ERC Starting Grant in 2025 for advancing green iron powder production via low-temperature electrolysis, for which she also received the prize ‘Electrons to Iron’ in 2025. She is a member of the Eindhoven Young Academy since September 2019 and the Dutch OpenFOAM User Group Committee since 2025, and serves on the Early Career Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Science. Her contributions influence reactor design and sustainable energy technologies.