CEADs Team Cultivates Young Talent for China's Dual Carbon Goals
The CEADs team, led by Professor Dabo Guan of Tsinghua University, brings together young scholars from more than ten research institutions in China and abroad. The team studies the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change, analyzes the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, and explores sustainable development pathways at both global and national levels. Over the years, CEADs has encouraged interdisciplinary collaboration and supported scholars in choosing their own research directions in the dual carbon field, carrying out innovative research, and accelerating the growth of young scientific and technological talent. The team aims to cultivate outstanding academic leaders with a global perspective and a focus on the frontiers of science and technology, contributing talent and expertise to China's dual carbon goals.
Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the results of the 2022 Excellent Young Scientists Fund. Professor Jiashuo Li of Shandong University and Professor Ya Zhou of Guangdong University of Technology, both members of the CEADs team, received support from the fund. Meanwhile, Dr. Yin Long and Dr. Jiamin Ou of the CEADs team obtained associate professor and assistant professor positions this year at leading universities in Japan and the Netherlands, respectively. They will continue to work in areas including greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions, integrated assessment of climate change, environmentally extended input-output analysis, and carbon neutrality pathways. The CEADs team will continue to train young researchers for China's dual carbon research agenda.
Member Profiles
(Listed alphabetically by pinyin)
Professor Jiashuo Li
Professor at the Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Shandong University, and a Taishan Scholar (Young Expert) of Shandong Province. His research focuses on the management of clean and low-carbon energy transitions, including the integrated economic, social, and environmental impact assessment of energy infrastructure transitions and strategies for clean and low-carbon transformation. He has published more than 50 first-author or corresponding-author papers in leading domestic and international journals, including Nature portfolio journals and Cell sister journals. His Google Scholar citations exceed 3,700, with an h-index of 38. More than ten of his papers have been listed as ESI hot or highly cited papers. He has led, or served as the lead for a collaborating institution on, four projects funded by the Department of Management Sciences of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has been included in Stanford University's list of the world's top 2% scientists and has received honors including the First Prize for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions of Shandong Province.
Associate Professor Yin Long
Appointed as a tenured associate professor at the University of Tokyo
Associate Professor and doctoral supervisor at the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Tokyo in 2019. He is currently one of the youngest tenured associate professors at the University of Tokyo and the first Chinese permanent faculty member in his program. He has worked at research institutions including Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies and Tokyo University of Science. Over the past five years, he has published more than 60 SCI/SSCI-indexed papers in journals including One Earth, a Cell Press journal, and Nature Climate Change, a Nature portfolio journal. He has twice received the MEXT Scholarship from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In 2018, he received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. Since 2021, he has been selected as a candidate for the JSPS Excellent Young Researchers program.
Assistant Professor Jiamin Ou
Appointed as a tenured assistant professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands
She graduated from the University of East Anglia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and South China University of Technology. Her research focuses on accounting for pollutant emissions from human activities and sustainability from both consumption and production perspectives. She has published more than 20 papers in high-quality journals including Joule, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, Environmental Science & Technology, and Applied Energy. She has received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad and Germany's Green Talents Award. She was selected for the 2018 Young Scientists Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and received the Mikhalevich Award, becoming the first Chinese scholar to receive this honor.
Professor Ya Zhou
She has long worked in environmental systems engineering. She has led nine research projects, including Young Scientists Fund and General Program projects of the Natural Science Foundation of China, and has participated as a core academic member in major consulting research projects of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and other team projects. As first author or corresponding author, including co-first or co-corresponding author, she has published 22 SCI papers, including a cover paper in a Nature portfolio journal. Her work has been included and reviewed by leading scholars in Nature portfolio journals and other publications, and her findings have been applied at the community scale. She received the Third Prize of the Guangdong Circular Economy Science and Technology Award. She serves as a youth editorial board member of The Innovation, a comprehensive international journal under Cell Press, a think tank expert on chemicals and waste environmental management at the Basel Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, and an environmental protection consultant to the Standing Committee of the 13th Guangdong Provincial People's Congress.