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Bing Zhu
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
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Biography
Bing Zhu holds degrees in chemical engineering (BE and ME) from Tsinghua University, China, and in industrial engineering and management (PhD) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He is currently Director and Professor of the Institute for Circular Economy at Tsinghua University, and Guest Senior Research Scholar with the Energy (ENE) Program at IIASA.Dr. Zhu first came to IIASA as a Research Assistant in the Dynamic Systems (DYN) Program in 1999. He returned to the Institute in January 2001, to work as a Research Scholar in the Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies (ECS) Program. Before joining the ECS Program at IIASA, he worked as a Lecturer at Tsinghua University and as a Visiting Research Scholar at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Currently he is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University as well as the Director of Institute for Circular Economy at the same university.
Dr. Zhu is active in professional services such as Member of International Resource Panel (IRP) of the United Nations Environment Programme, Member of Inter-Ministerial Panel of China on Circular Economy, Vice Chairman of Circular Economy Committee of Chinese Ecological Economics Society, Member of Technical Committee of Optimal Control of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and editorial board members of the international journal "Technology in Society" and Chinese journals "Chemical Industry", "Green Petroleum and Petrochemicals" and "Coal Processing & Comprehensive Utilization." His research interests include resource efficiency analysis and resource management decisions, circular economy assessment, industrial ecology, and chemical and energy techno-economics. As Principle Investigator, Dr. Bing Zhu's researches have been funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, et al.
Last update: 04 FEB 2020
Publications
Liang, S., Yu, Y., Kharrazi, A. , Fath, B. , Feng, C., Daigger, G.T., Chen, S., Ma, T., Zhu, B. , Mi, Z., & Yang, Z. (2020). Network resilience of phosphorus cycling in China has shifted by natural flows, fertilizer use and dietary transitions between 1600 and 2012. Nature Food 1 (6) 365-375. 10.1038/s43016-020-0098-6.
Jiang, M., Behrens, P., Wang, T., Tang, Z., Yu, Y., Chen, D., Liu, L., Ren, Z., Zhou, W., Zhu, S., He, C., Tukker, A., & Zhu, B. (2019). Provincial and sector-level material footprints in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences no. 201903028. 10.1073/pnas.1903028116.
Zhang, Y., Zhao, H., Yu, Y., Wang, T., Zhou, W., Jiang, J., Chen, D., & Zhu, B. (2019). Copper in-use stocks accounting at the sub-national level in China. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 147 49-60. 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.04.010.
Yu, Y., Liang, S., Zhou, W., Ren, H., Kharrazi, A. , & Zhu, B. (2019). A two-tiered attribution structural decomposition analysis to reveal drivers at both sub-regional and sectoral levels: A case study of energy consumption in the Jing-Jin-Ji region. Journal of Cleaner Production 213 165-175. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.167.
Liu, B., Chen, D., Zhou, W., Nasr, N., Wang, T., Hu, S., & Zhu, B. (2018). The Effect of Remanufacturing and Direct Reuse on Resource Productivity of China’s Automotive Production Author names and affiliations. Journal of Cleaner Production 194 309-317. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.119.