About

I am now a senior scientist leading the Resources and Urban Sustainability research group at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IUE-CAS). I am also a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an adjunct professor at Xiamen University, Northeastern University (China), and the University of Science and Technology of China. I obtained both my Bachelor and Doctoral degrees from the School of Environment at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and worked at the Yale Center for Industrial Ecology for five years before joining IUE-CAS in 2015.

My research focuses on (1) industrial ecology, (2) urban metabolism and sustainability, and (3) material flow analysis of metals, plastics, and chemicals. My studies have been published in PNAS, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Environmental science and Technology, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and other first-level journals. I was invited as a keynote speaker for the 11th ISIE Conference held by Leiden University in 2023.

I have been a member of ISIE since 2006 and served as a board member of ISIE during 2018-2020. ISIE has been the most important scientific community for my academic career, helping me find my mission and peers. I was also the founding president of Chinese Society for Industrial Ecology in 2015, and serve as editor, editorial member, or guest editor for >5 journals including Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, Journal of Industrial Ecology, etc.