Achieving her PhD at Newcastle University – pioneering the development of direct methanol alkaline fuel cells – Professor Eileen Yu worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems. Awarded a prestigious EPSRC Research Fellowship (Life Science Interface) in 2006, she returned to Newcastle to extend her research into the biosciences. She joined Loughborough’s Department of Chemical Engineering as Chair of Electrochemical Engineering in July 2020.

She has a multidisciplinary research profile with wide-ranging experience in various fields of electrochemical and bio-electrochemical systems (BES) for energy, environmental and biomedical applications – and has been awarded more than £20 million from various funding bodies. Her current research includes understanding the fundamentals and engineering applications of electrocatalysis and microbial electrosynthesis for CO2 utilisation, resource recovery from wastes, bioremediation, and environment monitoring with bio-electrochemical systems.