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Biography
Dr Yuli Shan is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Transitions at the University of Birmingham. He is a global highly cited researcher in 2020. Before joining the University of Birmingham, he worked at the University of Groningen as a Faculty Research Fellow. He got a doctoral degree from the University of East Anglia (2018) and a master’s degree from Fudan University (2014).
Yuli is a contributing author of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report and an executive committee member of the National Association of Input-Output and Big Data of China. Yuli has rich experience with publishing, reviewing, and editing journal papers. He is an editorial board member of Scientific Data, Advances in Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Advances in Climate Change Research, and Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
Yuli has won a dozen academic prizes including the Green Talents awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The jury especially valued the scientific expertise regarding his research on the adaption and investigation of sustainable policies in cities. Yuli has been interviewed by internationally renowned media such as Reuters, Financial Times, and Xinhua net to discuss city-level sustainable development.
Yuli is a contributing author of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report and an executive committee member of the National Association of Input-Output and Big Data of China. Yuli has rich experience with publishing, reviewing, and editing journal papers. He is an editorial board member of Scientific Data, Advances in Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Advances in Climate Change Research, and Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
Yuli has won a dozen academic prizes including the Green Talents awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The jury especially valued the scientific expertise regarding his research on the adaption and investigation of sustainable policies in cities. Yuli has been interviewed by internationally renowned media such as Reuters, Financial Times, and Xinhua net to discuss city-level sustainable development.
He is the winner of the 2023 Birmingham Founder's Awards for Early Career.
Research interests
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 100 papers in high-impact journals, such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Nature Geoscience, Nature Food, and Science Advances. His paper has been cited over 11,000 times (h-index 47), and 25 of them are ESI highly cited papers and 18 are hot papers. He has co-built an open emission dataset (CEADs) to provide the most up-to-date regional emission and energy data for emerging countries and subnational regions. CEADs has been downloaded by 100+ thousand times per year and reused in over 1,000 journal papers.
Academic Posts
- Associate Professor (2022-), University of Birmingham
- Faculty Research Fellow (2019-2022), University of Groningen
- Senior Research Associate (2018-2019), University of East Anglia
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Climate Change and Development, University of East Anglia
1 Oct 2014 → 18 Jul 2018
Award Date: 18 Jul 2018
Master of Social Science, Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University
1 Sept 2012 → 1 Jun 2014
Award Date: 1 Jun 2014
Bachelor of Science, Statistics, Actuarial Science and Risk, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics
1 Sept 2008 → 1 Jun 2012
Award Date: 1 Jun 2012
External positions
University of Groningen
1 Aug 2022 → …
Keywords
- H Social Sciences (General)
- Climate Change Economics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Sustainable Development
- GE Environmental Sciences
- Human Geography
- Urban Studies
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Assessments of the environmental performance of global companies need to account for company size
Mastrandrea, R., Burg, R. T., Shan, Y., Hubacek, K. & Ruzzenenti, F., 19 Jan 2024, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 1, 11 p., 5.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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China carbon emission accounts 2020-2021
Xu, J., Guan, Y., Oldfield, J., Guan, D. & Shan, Y., 15 Apr 2024, In: Applied Energy. 360, 10 p., 122837.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate policy in emerging economies: Evidence from China's Low-Carbon City Pilot
Zhang, H., Di Maria, C., Ghezelayagh, B. & Shan, Y., Mar 2024, In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 124, 102943.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How does global value chain embeddedness affect environmental pollution? Evidence from Chinese enterprises
Wu, S., Wei, T., Qu, Y., Xue, R., Wang, H. & Shan, Y., 1 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 434, 14 p., 140232.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Increasing climate change changes household medical expenditures
Zhu, D., Liu, M., Li, R., Shan, Y., Zhang, H., Bi, J. & Hubacek, K., 9 Mar 2024, EGU General Assembly 2024. EGU24-16105Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open AccessFile1 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
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A Health-centred Systems Approach towards Net-Zero: Transforming regional climate mitigation policies (Heal-NZ)
Shi, Z., Jowett, S., Day, R., Bloss, W., Bartington, S., Cavoski, A., Prestwood, E., Pope, F., Ferranti, E., Shan, Y., Reardon, L. & Wang, X.
1/10/23 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Optimising climate and air quality-related benefits of the transition to Net-Zero
31/03/23 → 30/03/25
Project: Research Councils
Datasets
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Carbon Emission Accounts and Datasets for emerging economies (CEADs)
Guan, D. (Creator) & Shan, Y. (Creator), www.ceads.net, 2016
Dataset
Activities
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CEADs summer school 2022
Yuli Shan (Participant)
22 Jul 2022 → 31 Jul 2022Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Other
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Advances in Applied Energy (Journal)
Yuli Shan (Editorial board member)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
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Scientific Data (Journal)
Yuli Shan (Editorial board member)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
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Green and Low-carbon Economy (Journal)
Yuli Shan (Editorial board member)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
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Frontiers in Psychology (Journal)
Yuli Shan (Guest editor)
2021 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
Prizes
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2019 Highly Cited Paper of Applied Energy
Shan, Yuli (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Applied Energy Highly Cited Original Paper
Shan, Yuli (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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