Ming Xu is an Associate Professor and Director of China Programs in School for Environment and Sustainability and an Associate 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 technologies. At the University of Michigan, he co-directs the Graduate Certificate Program in Industrial Ecology. He was awarded the Robert A. Laudise Medal from International Society for Industrial Ecology for “outstanding achievement in industrial ecology by a researcher under the age of 36” in 2015. He received the US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016. Currently he serves as the President of Chinese Society for Industrial Ecology and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling. He was elected to Chair the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology.

Sustainable consumption, life cycle assessment, input-output analysis, data science, network science

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