Built Environment & Energy Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Chun Chen (陳淳)
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Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2015
M. Eng., Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2012
B. Eng., Building Science, Tsinghua University, 2009
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Email: chunchen@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
News
Sep 02, 2025: Our paper "Yu, X., Chen, C.* (2025). Mechanisms of enhanced cooling performance of broken hollow microsphere-based radiative cooling coatings." has been accepted by Journal of Building Engineering, Congratulations to Xinxian!
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Sep 02, 2025: Prof. Chun Chen and Prof. Jeffrey Siegel from University of Toronto co-organized a workshop about "Challenges in air filtration for the control of infectious diseases" at CUHK. This workshop is supported by U of T-CUHK Research Fund.
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Aug 27, 2025: Prof. Chun Chen attended Building Simulation 2025 Conference in Brisbane, Australia, from Aug 24 to 29 and gave a presentation.
Aug 14, 2025: Prof. Chun Chen gave a talk entitled "Aerosol transport simulation and its applications for built environments" at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. The host is Prof. Liuhao Ma.
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Aug 01, 2025: Tongqing Liu and Kangrui Zhao have joined our group as Ph.D. students. Tongqing obtained his B.Eng. from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2024. Kangrui obtained his B.Eng. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2025. Welcome! Our existing members Dr. Kangqi Guo will stay in our group as a Postdoc and Xudong Wang has become a Ph.D. student.
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