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Principal Investigator

Prof. Shi Chen

Prof. Chen earned her Ph.D. at Tsinghua University and completed postdoctoral training at Tsinghua, Carnegie Science, and Stanford University, with further research experience at Harvard University and IIASA, as well as industry experience at LONGi (China) and StarTimes (Kenya). She has secured competitive research fundings from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China’s National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents, and Princeton University. Her first-author
publications appear in journals such as PNAS, Joule, One Earth, Communications Earth & Environment, and Environmental Research Letters, with her work being widely cited and highlighted by international peers. Prof. Chen is the recipient of several honors, including MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35 China” and the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps Innovation Award.

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Research affiliations:

HKUST IAS Atmospheric Research Center

HKUST Energy Institute

Meet the group members

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Jinquan Ye, Research Assistant

Master in Environmental Policy, Duke University (2025)

Bachelor in Management Science, Nanchang University (2022)

Email: jinquan@ust.hk

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Han Lv, Research Assistant

MPhill in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2026)

MSc in Environmental Science and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2024)

Bachelor in Management, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies(2023)

Email: hlvaa@connect.ust.hk


Alumni

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Guang Yang, Research Assistant, 2026

Ying Xie, MSc Project student, 2026

Yinan Wu, MSc Project student, 2026

Tengdan Zhang, MSc Project student, 2026