Dr. Xi Yang (She/her)
Sustainable development
sustainable transitions in Interdisciplinary dimensions with CONCEPTUAL innovations
Equitable transitions
Paradigm changes beyond green new deal
Facing Anthropocene
holistic approaches to social, political, and cognitive revolution
Framework
I have 15 years of experience working on studies on sustainable transitions with realistic solutions in interdisciplinary dimensions. I am a scientist as well as a rebel rabbit against climate change. I work at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. My research keywords include energy systems, technology innovation, just transition, green hydrogen, hard-to-abate sectors, quantitative methods and dynamic modeling, sectoral solutions for ambitious 2050 targets (mainly on the power sector, transport, industry, and residential), and social impacts. My recent years’ work pays particular attention to renewable energy, energy storage, technology innovations, and the integrated energy-environmental-social impacts.
As a researcher, teacher, supervisor, manager, impact maker, and team player, I have 40+ peer-reviewed articles, with 30+ publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals related to the energy transition, renewable energy systems, and relevant environmental economics in recent years such as Nature Energy; Nature Communications; iScience (Cell Press), etc., with ESI top1% high cited papers and studies cited by IPCC AR6 WGIII reports. Studies are widely applied in projects/grants funded by European Commission Horizontal 2020, Energy Foundation, and Harvard Global Institute. Explore more as follows.
Recent Studies
Clean hydrogen: the bottleneck breaker of the 'Hard-to-abate' sectors. 2022 Paper in Nature Energy.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01114-6 (2022).
Research Highlights in Nature.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03084-x
Manager
In team we are stronger
Artist
In creativity we invest
Scientist
In truth we believe
