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
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
Zhou, W., Zhu, B. , Chen, D., Griffy-Brown, C., Ma, Y., & Fei, W. (2012). Energy consumption patterns in the process of China's urbanization. Population and Environment 33 (2) 202-220. 10.1007/s11111-011-0133-5.
Tarasyev, A. & Zhu, B. (2012). Optimization of Resource Productivity as a Driver of Economic Growth. In: Worlds Within Reach: From Science To Policy - IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 24-26 October 2012, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.
Zhu, B. , Zhang, W., Du, J., Zhou, W., Qiu, T., & Li, Q. (2011). Adoption of renewable energy technologies (RETs): A survey on rural construction in China. Technology in Society 33 (3) 223-230. 10.1016/j.techsoc.2011.09.002.
Zhou, W., Zhu, B. , Chen, D., Zhao, F., & Fei, W. (2011). Technoeconomic assessment of China's indirect coal liquefaction projects with different CO2 capture alternatives. Energy 36 (11) 6559-6566. 10.1016/j.energy.2011.09.007.
Liu, X., Zhu, B. , Zhou, W., Hu, S., Chen, D., & Griffy-Brown, C. (2011). CO2 emissions in calcium carbide industry: An analysis of China's mitigation potential. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 5 (5) 1240-1249. 10.1016/j.ijggc.2011.06.002.