Professor at Tsinghua University; ISIE Laudise Medal recipient; Former ISIE Councilor and Student Chapter Chair; Founding Member and former President of Chinese Society for Industrial Ecology
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Ming Xu is a Professor in School of Environment at Tsinghua University. Prior to his current position, he was a Professor in School for Environment and Sustainability and Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his BS and MS from Tsinghua University, China, and PhD from Arizona State University, all in environmental engineering. His research focuses on environmental footprint analysis and environmental impacts of emerging systems. At the University of Michigan, he co-directed the Graduate Certificate Program in Industrial Ecology. He was awarded the Robert A. Laudise Medal from International Society for Industrial Ecology. He received the US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016. Currently he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling. He was elected to Chair the 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology and President of International Society for Industrial Ecology (2023-2024).
Research Interests
Sustainable consumption, life cycle assessment, input-output analysis, data science, network science
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