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Sustainable Development and the Future Lecture Series V: Zhang Chao Energy Transition & Carbon Neutrality
Published:27/03/2023

Lectures times & venues



Time:   30 March 2023 (Thursday) 19:00-20:35

Venue: Staircase 4, Rui'an Building, Siping Campus

Topic:  Energy Transition and Carbon Neutrality

Presenter: Zhang Chao





Education experience


2007/08-2012/07 PhD in Engineering School of Environment, Tsinghua University (Environmental Systems Analysis) 


2003/08-2007/07 B.Eng. School of Environmental Studies, Tsinghua University 



Work Experience


2017/01-Present Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University 


2013/09-2016/12 Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University 


2012/09-2013/08 Postdoctoral Fellow, Sustainability Science (SSP) and Energy Technology Innovation (ETIP) Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 



Academic Service


Since March 2018, Interdisciplinary Professor in Green Economy, United Nations Environment Programme - School of Environment and Sustainable Development, Tongji University 


Academic Editor of the journal China Population ∙ Resources and Environment since May 2018 


Member of the Professional Committee on Resource Flow and Management of the Chinese Society of Natural Resources since April 2018 


Since February 2018, Deputy Secretary General of the Professional Committee of Industrial Ecology of the Chinese Society of Ecology 


Since June 2016, member of the editorial board of Elsevier journal Sustainable Production and Consumption (ISSN: 2352-5509) 


Since May 2015, Assistant Director of the Think Tank on Sustainable Development and New Urbanisation, Tongji University 



Honours / Awards


Emerald Citations of Excellence for 2017 (June 2017) 


January 2016, selected for the Outstanding Young Teacher Training Program (Talent Program) of Tongji University 


In June 2015, he was selected as one of the Young Research Cultivators in Shanghai Universities (Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's Morning Glory Plan) 


In 2015 and 2016, his undergraduate thesis won the Tongji University Excellent Graduation Design (Thesis) Award.