CEADS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Professor of Environment
Bin Chen is a Distinguished Professor of environment modelling at Beijing Normal University. He obtained B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, and Ph.D. degree in environmental science from Peking University. His research interests include ecological economics, energy-water nexus and urban ecosystem. Dr. Chen has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious international journals such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, PNAS, and Trends in Biotechnology. He has 8 ESI-Most Cited Articles and 12 Top 25 Hottest Articles (Elsevier). His works are widely recognized and have more than 10000 citations with H-index of 44 according to Web of Science. He is serving as Associate Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production, Frontiers of Earth Science, Subject Editor of Applied Energy, and an editorial board member of Energy, Ecological Modelling, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Hydrodynamics and Ecological Informatics, etc. He was also among the organizers and keynote speakers for various international conferences.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Geology Department in 2011 As an Adjunct Research Professor
- PROFESSOR
Dr. Gregg Marland joined the Geology Department in 2011 as an Adjunct Research Professor, and has a dual appointment with the Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics. Dr. Marland joins the RIEEE from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he served for over 35 years and since 2000 as Distinguished Research and Development Staff. He has served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Methods for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions, co-chair of the United State Interagency Carbon Cycle Science Working Group, and National Research Council Committee on Global Change Research. His current research interests focus on the environmental impacts of energy systems, particularly on global climate change.
He recently served the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) where he was lead author of Guidelines for National Emissions Inventories (2006), lead on for the Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage, contributing author on Radiative Forcing of Climate Change for the First Assessment Report, lead author on Energy Primer for the Second Assessment Report, lead author on Land-Use Change and forestry for the Third Assessment Report, and lead author on Special Report on Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry. He currently serves as a editorial board of the Environmental Science and Policy Journal and editorial advisory board for the Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Journal.
Job Titles:
- Environmental Accounts
- STUDENT
Dr. Huiqing Wang is a Ph.D. Student in BOC Research Institute. She received her Ph.D.in Finance from University of International Business and Economics. Huiqing has won a dozen of prizes including National Scholarship, Excellent Graduates in Beijing, first-class Academic scholarship. Her current research focuses on Green finance, climate investment and financing. She has published papers in journals such as Energy Economics、Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences、Journal of Environmental Management.
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- Jiamin Ou POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
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- Assistant Researcher and Master Supervisor
- Qi He ASSISTANT RESEARCHER
Qi He, Assistant Researcher and master supervisor in the Research Institute of Global Value Chains in University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China). Her research interests include green global value chain, trade and environment, climate change and low carbon cities, environmental justice. She has published over 10 academic papers and carried out a project funded from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. See Dr.He's profile for more information on http://rigvc.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Shanshan Zhang SCIENCE EDITOR
Dr. Shanshan Zhang has a doctorate in energy economics and policy at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She used to be an assistant professor at the Northwest Polytechnic University, and now is the science editor of One Earth, responsible for the energy and city related topics of the journal.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- PROFESSOR
- Professor in College of Urban and Environmental
Dr. Shu Tao is a Professor in College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Science and a member of National Steering Committee on Environmental Protection. He serves as Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology.
His current researchinterests include global emission inventories of various air pollutants, atmospheric transport and population exposure modeling, household air quality, and policy evaluation. He has more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewedinternational journals, including three in PNAS, one in Nature Energy, and many in Environmental Science & Technology with total citation over 12,000and H-index (Web of Science) of 69.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Researcher at CIRED, Associate
- Vincent VIGUIÉ RESEARCH FELLOW
Vincent VIGUIÉ is a Researcher at CIRED, Associate Professor at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. His research focuses on climate change adaptation economics, sustainable city development and modelling of coupled human/natural/engineering systems. It includes evaluation of climate policies, climate change impacts and vulnerabilities, natural disasters indirect economic impacts; climate policy implications on/from urban areas, synergies and conflicts between urban climate policies and other urban policies; modelling of coupled human/natural/engineering systems, urban structure dynamics (Land-use transport interaction models), future studies and long-term scenarios.
Job Titles:
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Associate Professor at Instituteof Environmental
Dr. Ya Zhou is an Associate Professor at Instituteof Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology. She is also the member of Key Laboratory for City Cluster Environmental Safetyand Green Development of the Ministry of Education, as well as International Society for Environmental Information Sciences. She is a visiting scholar at University of East Anglia from Nov. 2017 to Nov. 2018. Her research interests include energy and environmental system analysis, sustainable consumption and regional sustainable development, and she particularly focuses on the environmental impacts and sustainable development pathways of booming takeaway industry. She has published papers in high-impact journals, such as Nature Food, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Industrial Ecology. She has awarded National Natural Science Foundation of China, Humanities and SocialScience Foundation in Ministry of Education of China, and National NaturalScience Foundation of Guangdong Province as principal investigator. See Ya's profile for more information: http://ieee.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Senior Editor
- Yang Xia SENIOR EDITOR
Dr. Yang Xia joined in Nature as a Senior Editor in July 2020 and used to be the senior editor at Nature Communications during 2017-2020. As the first social science editor at both journals，she has a BS in economics, a MS in sustainability, both from the University of Leeds, and a doctorate in ecological economics from the University of East Anglia, where her research focuses on quantitative assessment of the socioeconomic impacts of health outcomes resulting from disasters such as heat-waves and air pollution. She handles manuscripts on socio-economics, climate-related health risks, climate policy and sustainability.
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- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- FOUNDER
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor at Tsinghua University
- Environmental Accounts
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- Associate Professor
- Environmental Accounts
- Subject Leader
- SUBJECT LEADER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Dr Yuli Shan is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Transitions, University of Birmingham.
He is a global highly cited researcher since 2020. He is a contributing author of the IPCC 6 th Assessment Report; an overseas standing director of National Association of Input-Output and Big Data of China; an editorial board member of several journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Advances in Climate Change Research and Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
Yuli's research focuses on greenhouse gas emission accounts, climate change economics, and sustainable development , with a special focus on cities from developing countries. He has published over 130 papers in high-impact journals, such as Nature Climate Change , Nature Sustainability, Nature Food, and Science Advances. His paper has been cited over 11,000 times (h-index 49). 25 of his papers are ESI hot papers, and 18 are ESI highly-cited papers. He has co-built an open emission dataset (CEADs ) to provide the most up-to-date regional emission and energy data for China and other developing countries. Yuli has won a dozen academic prizes including the Green Talents. The jury especially valued the scientific expertise regarding his research on adaption and investigation of sustainable policies in cities. Yuli has been interviewed by internationally renowned media such as Reuters, Financial Times, and Xinhua net to discuss city-level sustainable development.
See Yuli's profile for more information, as well as the Google Scholar.
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- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Associate Professor of Economics and Management
- Environmental Accounts
Li Li, Associate Professor of Economics and Management College in China University of Geosciences in Beijing, is mainly engaged in environmental economy and energy economy, etc. She has published more than 30 academic papers and has 16SCI/SSCI papers as the first author and corresponding author. She currently presides over one project funded from Natural Science Foundation of China and one project from Beijing Social Science Foundation.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Dean of Oxford Martin College
- Professor
Charles Godfray is the dean of Oxford Martin College and professor of population biology at Oxford University. He is currently chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Ministry of environment and development. Professor Godfray is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of England, the European Academic Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has broad interests in the environmental sciences and has published in fundamental and applied areas of ecology, evolution and epidemiology. He is interested in how the global food system will need to change and adapt to the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and in particular in the concept of sustainable intensification, and the relationship between food production, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
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- Founder
- Member of the Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- PROFESSOR
- Professor in Ecological Economics at Energy and Sustainability Research Institute
Klaus Hubacek is a Professor in Ecological Economics at Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, University of Groningen. His research focuses on conceptualizing and modeling the interaction between human and environmental systems and developing and modeling scenarios of future change. Klaus has published over 200 research articles on topics such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, participatory modeling, management of ecosystems services, land use change and governance. He has published in international journals such as Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His research was showcased in national and international news outlets including ScienceNews, The Guardian, Le Monde, New Scientist, CBS, the German TV and Radio, and the BBC.
He conducted studies for a number of national agencies in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the U.S. and international institutions such as the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank, the OECD, and the World Bank. He served on advisory boards for a number of agencies such as the Climate Center of the City of Shanghai, China and the Sustainable Land Use program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Klaus also serves on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals such as Applied Energy and Journal of Industrial Ecology. Also, he is a lead author for the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC, Workgroup III.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor at the University of Maryland
- Kuishuang Feng ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Kuishuang Feng is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. His research is focused on consumption-based environmental accounting at local, national, and global scales. His expertise is in spatial ecological-economic modeling with regards to sustainable production and consumption, scenario analysis and evaluation of environmental issues. Prof. Feng is also the Editor of Ecological Economics and Associate Editor of Science of the Total Environment.
Minhan Dai is a Chair Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry at Xiamen University, China. He currently serves as the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science.Minhan Dai earned his B.S. degree from Xiamen University and his Ph.D. from Université Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris VI), France in 1995. After a Doherty Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), he took a faculty position at Xiamen University in 1998. His research focuses on carbon biogeochemistry in marginal and estuarine systems, geochemistry of radioactive elements in surface and ground water, geochemistry of trace metals in coastal and estuarine environments and geochemical studies of colloidal material in the transport of trace metals, organic carbon, and radionuclines in surface and ground waters. Minhan Dai has published over 130 papers in leading international journals.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- PROFESSOR
- Professor of Frontier Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Shandong
Ning Zhang is a Professor of Frontier Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Shandong University, and awarded with National Excellent Youth Fund (2018).
The main research directions are resource environment economy and sustainable development assessment. He has published more than 80 papers in International and Chinese journals, including Science, Nature, Cell, Economic Research (in Chinese). He was a Global Highliy Cited Researcherin 2020, and ranked among the top 10% economists in 2021 in ideasgrepec database. According to socpus database, he ranked second among the world's top scholars in the field of undesired outputs, environmental efficiency (t.3864).
At present, he is deputy editor of Social Science Journal, editorial board member of Technical Forecasting and Social Change, and editorial board member of China Population, Resources and Environment.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Director at the Laboratoire
- PROFESSOR
Philippe Ciais is Associate Director at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et del'Environnement (LSCE) and Professor at Versailles University (UVSQ). He is a physicist working on the global carbon cycle of planet Earth, climate change,ecology and geosciences. Philippe Ciais is a highly cited researcher in two fields: Geosciences and Environment/Ecology and in all the fields of the ISI science indicators (Thomson Reuters). He has ranked as the most productive scientific author in the field of climate change, and among the authors who contributed to 5 of the 100 most influential papers in this field in a recent CarbonBrief analysis (2015) and was ranked among the list of Highly Cited Researchers in Clarivate Analytics. He also has worked for the IPCC in the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and coordinated the Chapter 6 "Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles" in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- PROFESSOR
- Professor and Deputy
Qiang Zhang is a Professor and Deputy Dean at Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. He was awarded with National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2016).
His research interests include developments of emission inventory and emission process model, regional air quality modeling, and satellite observations oftropospheric air pollution. The Asian emission inventory he developed has been widely used in scientific community. He has published more 270 SCI papers, with 20 papers in Nature and Nature sub-journal, Science Advances, PNAS. He is a highly cited scholar in China (Elsevier) and Global Highly Cited Scientist (Clarivate Analytics).
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- Professor at School of Economics
Shouyang Wang is a Professor at School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on decision analysis, financial management, logistics and supply chain management, economic analysis and forecasting, policy analysis.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- PROFESSOR
- Professor of Earth System Science, University
Steven J. Davis is a Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine. Prof. Davis works to understand and find ways to meet the challenge of satisfying global demand for energy, food, and goods without emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. His research interests include biogeochemical cycles; energy technology and policy; emissions and energy embodied in international trade; life cycle assessment; interactions of agriculture and climate; human drivers of greenhouse gas emissions; and socio-economic inertia of climate change. Expert in the interactions of energy, agriculture, water, climate and international trade. Prof. Davis was awarded the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize (National Academy of Sciences).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Co - Founder of the UK - China ( Guangdong ) CCUS Centre
- PROFESSOR
Dr. Liang is the Secretary General and co-founder of the UK-China (Guangdong) CCUS Centre, a deputy director of China's Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage Committee, and a standing committee member in the China's Climate Investment and Finance Association (CIFA), an honorary Professor in the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at the University College London. Dr Liang is also an associate editor of Emerging Market and Finance and is an editorial board member of International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. He has been honourary professor in Xiamen University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China.
Xi Liang has been appointed as the International Lead of the Asian Development Banks CCS Centre of Excellence (Guangdong) project, PI of the World Bank Network Carbon Market (China), and PI of multiple UK Foreign and Commonwealth Government Office (FCO) Strategic Programme Fund projects. Xi recently was PI for BHP funded research grant to conduct techno-economic analysis on CCUS in the iron and steel sector in China. Dr. Liang has been leading on a total of GBP 2.15 million in research grants and on the USD 20 million China Resources Power Haifeng carbon capture pilot project. He is also the co-founder and board director of the first CCUS project operational entity in China, Reduce Carbon Limited, a subsidiary of China Resources Power. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst holder and a Financial Risk Manager charter holder.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the Department of Environmental Science
Yutao Wang is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology and the Fudan Tyndall Center of Fudan University. His research interests include urban complex eco-system simulation and application, cleaner production and circular economy, ecological capital and ecological compensation, climate policy and adaptation, sustainability assessment. He was awarded the Newton Advanced Scholarship by the British Academy of Sciences and the Newton Fund, and served as the co-editor of Journal of Cleaner Production and the special issue editor of Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- PROFESSOR
Qi Hao is a Ph.D Student in the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. He is particularly interested in carbon emissions database development for industrial parks, greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and climate change adaptation in industrial parks, etc.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Xi Liu POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Xi Liu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University (Weihai). She graduated from Tianjin University. Her research focuses on renewable energy transition and sustainable development goals, air pollution and carbon emissions co-mitigation strategies in iron and steel industry, virtual water trade and energy system modelling, etc. She has published 10 peer-reviewed papers in Water Research, Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Environmental Pollution, etc. She is the PI of one project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Environmental Accounts
- STUDENT
Xian Li is a PhD Candidate in the split-site programme between Southern University of Science and Technology and University of East Anglia. Her main focus is environmental economics, virtual water flows, water-energy nexus, and water pollutants in river basins. Her research has previously published in journals such as Applied Energy and Environmental Research Letters.
Job Titles:
- Environmental Accounts
- STUDENT
Xinyu Dou is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. She is particularly interested in urban metabolism and emission inventory. Her work is now focusing on carbon footprints of the cities that heavily rely on the supply from other regions from the perspective of urban metabolism.
Yaqin Guo is a Ph.D. Student at Institute of HUST. Her research interest is Input-output analysis and the dynamic technology-based emission factor model for heavy metal emission account. She has published 2 papers in Journal of Environmental Management and Journal of Cleaner Production.
Job Titles:
- Environmental Accounts
- STUDENT
Job Titles:
- Environmental Accounts
- STUDENT
Zhu Deng is a Ph.D. Student in the Dapartment of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. His research interests include high resolution carbon emission inventory, and the application of environmental big data. He is also a core member of Carbon Monior (https://carbonmonitor.org), a near real-time CO2 emission dataset.