Dr. J. Yan is chair professor of Energy Engineering at Mälardalen University & Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He is director of Future Energy Profile. 

Prof. Yan is the editor-in-chief of Applied Energy journal & editor-in-chief of Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. He is the Chair of International Conferences on Applied Energy. He is an academician of European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Prof. Yan's research interests include advanced energy systems; renewable energy; advanced power generation; climate change mitigation technologies and related environment and policy etc. Prof. Yan published about 400 papers including papers in Science, Nature Energy & Nature Climate and hold 10+ patents.