Prof. Yuli Shan is a Professor in Sustainability at the School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham (UoB). He is a Steering Research Committee Member and Lead of Finance for Sustainability of Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA).
Yuli joined UoB in 2022 as an Associate Professor, and then was promoted to a full Professor this year. Before joining UoB, he worked at the University of Groningen (RUG) as a Research Fellow from 2019 to 2022. He got a doctoral degree from the University of East Anglia (2018) and a master’s degree from Fudan University (2014).
Yuli is a Global Highly Cited Researcher and the World's Top 2% Scientist (career and single year) since 2020. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an IPCC contributing author, a coordinating lead authorship for the 5th National Climate Change Assessment Report of China, an ISIE Sustainable Urban System Board member, and an overseas board member of China's National Association of Input-Output and Big Data. He is an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of several journals including Science Bulletin, Sustainable Futures, The Innovation Geosciences, Scientific Data, etc.
Yuli’s research focuses on accounting for carbon emissions, climate change economics, and sustainable development, with a special focus on developing countries and cities. He has published over 180 papers in high-impact journals, including 25+ in Nature and Science entitled journals. His papers have been cited over 20k+ times (H-index 66), and 33of them are ESI highly cited papers and 20 are hot papers.
Yuli has won a dozen academic prizes including the University of Birmingham Founders' Awards (2023), the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed PhD Students Abroad (2016), and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Green Talents Award (2018). Yuli has been interviewed by renowned media outlets and invited to present his research at international conferences.
Yuli's main research interests:
- accounting for carbon emissions
- climate change economics
- urban emission accounts and decarbonisation
- regional sustainable development
- input-output analysis
See his personal website for more details – www.shanyuli.com.
