Assistant Professor · Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy · Tsinghua University
Building decision-ready models for China’s net-zero transition—revealing which technologies, timelines, and policy trade-offs can deliver credible climate progress.
Signature contributions
Three contributions show the arc of the programme—from uncertainty, to cross-system sustainability, to the operating detail required for a feasible transition.
Flexibility is not a footnote. It changes the pathway.
A sub-annual energy-system model co-optimizes supply- and demand-side flexibility, exposing load ramps, price stress, and least-regret portfolios for reliable decarbonization.
Net zero should advance—not trade away—the SDGs.
A multi-model framework maps the co-benefits and trade-offs linking climate action with energy, water, food, air quality, land, and development objectives.
Uncertainty becomes useful when it sharpens decisions.
Three thousand scenarios turn technology, timing, and carbon-budget uncertainty into decision ranges for electrification, renewables, storage, and negative emissions.
Research agenda
The work connects long-run transition pathways to the physical, economic, and institutional constraints that determine whether those pathways can hold.
Systems
Resolve the technology pathways, infrastructure choices, and temporal flexibility needed for reliable deep decarbonization.
Hourly balance · Storage · Demand responseNexus
Trace interactions among energy, water, food, air quality, land use, and sustainable development goals.
Co-benefits · Trade-offs · SecurityDecisions
Translate uncertain technology, timing, and demand futures into least-regret portfolios and policy-relevant choices.
Scenarios · Investment · WelfareTrajectory
Recent milestones across scholarship, funding, and policy service.
First-author Nature Communications research integrates sub-annual flexibility into China’s transition modelling.
Awarded the NSFC Young Scientists Fund (C) as principal investigator for hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels.
Completed the Ph.D., joined Tsinghua University, and published featured first-author work in Nature Sustainability.
Published a first-author Nature Communications paper and began a visiting research period at IIASA through 2023.
Latest
| Aug 27, 2025 | I have been granted the NSFC Young Scientists Fund (C). |
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| Dec 01, 2024 | We got a project of National Science and Technology Major Program. |
| Aug 27, 2024 | Nature Sustainability paper was featured. |