Xi Lu
Tsinghua University, China
Biography
Xi Lu is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment at Tsinghua University. He has completed his PhD in John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University in 2010. After then, he continued working at Harvard as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate and Lecturer until joining Tsinghua in 2015. His research interests emphasize study of the technical, economic, and environmental dimensions of low or zero carbon energy sources as a means to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants. He has published papers in Science, PNAS, Nature Energy, and Nature Communications on these topics. He has won the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2010, selected in the One Thousand Program for Young Professionals in 2015, and received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2017.