Yuquan Zhang
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Yuquan Zhang, associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s China-UK Low Carbon College. He obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in the United States (2011), and his B.S. in Resources Science and Engineering from Beijing Normal University in China (2007). Prior to joining SJTU in 2015, he worked as a research economist at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in the States and thereafter as a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. His research focuses on climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation, and he has demonstrated experience in GAMS programming. Besides teaching and research, he serves as an associate deputy editor of Climatic Change and a youth editorial board member of Carbon Neutrality. He also serves on the committees of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and co-governance of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation under the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. As of 2024, he published 20+ journal articles, 6 book chapters, and created 7 software copyright works.
