Female, Han nationality, born in Gutian County, Fujian Province in December 1984. She holds a Doctor of Engineering degree, is a Professor and doctoral supervisor in the discipline of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. She also serves as Assistant to the Dean, Director of the Faculty Congress, Chairman of the Trade Union, and Secretary of the Department Party Branch.
Currently, she is the Young Editorial Board Member of Applied Energy, Editorial Board Member of Journal of Hydrodynamics and Journal of Hydrodynamics (Ser. B), Review Editor of Frontiers in Marine Science, Deputy Director of the Women Scientists Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Director of the Ocean Engineering Branch of the Chinese Oceanographic Society, Member of the 4th Council of The Ocean Engineering, Member of the Marine Floating Structures and New Energy Equipment Group of the Committee of Ship Mechanics, Member of the Chinese Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and reviewer for many journals including Applied Energy, Energy, Ocean Engineering, Journal of Fluids and Structures, and China Ocean Engineering.
Professor Zhou Binzhen focuses on key fundamental issues in fully nonlinear water wave dynamics, and carries out research driven by the country's major demand for high-efficiency and high-reliability marine energy utilization technologies. She has achieved three representative innovative achievements with distinctive features and interconnections:
She has constructed a coupled model and numerical method for fully nonlinear wave-ocean engineering equipment interaction in open circular waters under harsh deep-sea environments, breaking through the bottlenecks of existing numerical methods such as difficulty in wave absorption, low accuracy, and slow calculation speed, and realizing efficient and accurate prediction of hydrodynamic performance of various typical ocean engineering equipment.
She has proposed a high-efficiency and high-reliability heaving buoy wave energy device suitable for deep and distant seas, breaking through the key bottlenecks of existing devices such as poor survivability, low energy efficiency, and narrow effective energy capture frequency band, and improving the wave energy conversion efficiency and the adaptability of the device to different working sea conditions.
She has clarified the formation mechanism and influence laws of typical narrow-gap resonance and wave focusing effect inherent in the integrated system of wave energy devices and marine structures, overcome bottleneck problems such as narrow-gap resonance failure, wave focusing effect attenuation, and poor matching and coupling between equipment, and achieved significant improvement in wave energy efficiency.
Based on the above research, Professor Zhou Binzhen has presided over more than 20 projects including the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund, Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Young Scientists Fund, General and Youth Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Sub-task of the Major Special Project of High-tech Ships of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Postdoctoral Special Fund, and China Postdoctoral General Fund (First-class). As a technical backbone, she has participated in key international cooperation projects between China and the UK of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key R&D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and special topics of the Major Special Project of High-tech Ships of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. She has applied for more than 20 invention patents, among which 4 have been authorized. She has published more than 60 papers as the first or corresponding author, including 32 papers indexed by SCI, 16 of which are in Top journals of CAS Category I. Her core research results have been published in international authoritative journals in the field such as Appl. Energy (3 papers, CAS Category I, IF=11.446), Energy Conv. and Manag. (1 paper, CAS Category I, IF=11.533), Energy (5 papers, CAS Category I, IF=8.857), Ocean Eng. (5 papers, CAS Sub-category I, IF=4.372), Physics of Fluids, and Appl. Ocean Res.. She has won many honors including the Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, the Second Prize of Marine Engineering Science and Technology Award, the Excellent Young Scholar Award of the 1st Coastal Engineering Young and Middle-aged Academic Symposium, the Mechanics Young Scholar Award of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), the Academic Newcomer Award of the Ministry of Education, and the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Dalian University of Technology. In 2017, she was selected into the first International Top-notch Innovative Talents Training Program for Clean Energy.
