Rong Tang

Biography

Rong Tang joined the Pollution Management Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program and the AiR-Climate-Health (ARCH) Group at Peking University as a joint postdoctoral researcher in October 2024.

Her research focuses on the air-climate-health-energy nexus, elucidating how interactions and feedbacks between climate change, emission pathways, and human activities shape air quality, public health, and energy systems through cross-scale coupled modeling.

Prior to joining IIASA, she obtained her bachelor’s and PhD degrees in atmospheric sciences from the Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences (JirLATEST), Nanjing University, China. Her doctoral research focused on global and regional climate change mitigation pathways, particularly the economic and health impacts of low-carbon transition strategies under deep decarbonization targets.

She has experience working with air quality modeling coupled with meteorology such as chemical transport model GEOS-Chem and WRF-Chem with meteorological feed-backs, as well as integrated assessment models (GCAM-China) and health impact assessment models. In addition, she applies integrated assessment methodologies to explore the interlinked challenges across energy and environmental systems.

She has published in peer-reviewed journals including Nature Communications, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and The Lancet Regional Health, with her papers collectively receiving over 1,000 citations. She has participated in research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Energy Foundation (US), and was funded by China’s National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents.


Last update: 19 DEC 2025