Shiya Zhao
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Shiya Zhao joined the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program in October 2025. Before joining IIASA, she was a program-specific assistant professor at Kyoto University, Japan.She holds a PhD in environmental engineering from Kyoto University. Her PhD research focused on incorporating poverty, income distribution, and household consumption assessment into Asian-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM). Zhao first visited IIASA as a participant of the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) in 2023, during which she worked intensively on bridging AIM with the MESSAGE model.
Her main field of interest is the construction and assessment of sustainable and just decarbonization transitions at both national and global level, and model development for addressing broader equity issues during the decarbonization transition.
Last update: 01 DEC 2025
Publications
Fujimori, S. , Fan, L., Zhao, S. , Asayama, S., Hasegawa, T., Nishiura, O., Shiraki, H., & Takahashi, K. (2026). International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries. Communications Earth & Environment 7 (1) e118. 10.1038/s43247-026-03208-5.
Zhao, S. , Fujimori, S. , Min, J. , Kikstra, J. , Hasegawa, T., Oshiro, K., & Vishwanathan, S.S. (2025). The multi-faceted global poverty and income inequality landscape in a decarbonizing world. Cell Reports Sustainability 2 e100487. 10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100487.
Zhao, S. , Fujimori, S. , Min, J. , Kikstra, J. , Hasegawa, T., & Oshiro, K. (2023). The poverty and inequality outcomes of deep climate mitigation --soft-linking a household model to global IAMs. In: 16th IAMC Annual Meeting, November 14-16, 2023, Venice, Italy.