Di Sheng
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Di Sheng is a research scholar in the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. Her research interests focus on understanding how climate change shapes economies and the environment and applying spatial data to improve economic decision-making.Before joining IIASA, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, where she enhanced the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) by developing agricultural labor and capital components and linking the Agricultural Land Use and Macroeconomy modules. She has also worked on land use and valuation, air pollution, and emissions trading systems.
She earned her PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Colorado State University in 2022 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Exeter from 2021 to 2022.
Last update: 16 SEP 2025
Publications
Tebaldi, C., O’Neill, B., Sheng, D., Prime, N., Zhao, M., Dorheim, K., & Brown, J. (2026). Implications of climate change impacts for emission and land use scenario development. Environmental Research Letters 21 (7) e074018. 10.1088/1748-9326/ae58be.