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Professor Eileen Yu is Professor of Chemical Engineering within the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Southampton.

Eileen has a wide range of experience in various fields in electrochemical and bioelectrochemical systems for energy, environmental and biomedical applications. She has attracted more than £20m funding from various funding organisations. Her current research includes understanding fundamentals and engineering applications of electrocatalysis and microbial electrosynthesis for CO₂ utilisation, resource recovery from wastes, bioremediation and environment monitoring with bioelectrochemical systems.

Eileen is the Editor in Chief of Fuel Cells (Wiley), and Associate editor for Frontiers in Energy Research, Biosensors. She is Committee member and Treasurer of Society of Chemical Industry Electrochemical Engineering Group.

Before joining Southampton in 2024, Eileen held academic positions at Newcastle University and Loughborough University. 

She did her PhD at Newcastle University on the development of direct methanol alkaline fuel cells, she worked as a research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany before she returned to Newcastle University to take a prestigious EPSRC Research Fellowship (Life Science Interface). This fellowship enabled her to extend her research into the biosciences, from which she has developed a interdisciplinary research profile.