木瓜福利影视

My research spans three main directions:

1. Production- and Consumption-Based Emissions

My research focuses on estimating national emissions from both production- and consumption-based perspectives, and on understanding the interconnections between producers, consumers, and environmental systems. By analyzing how emissions are generated, transferred, and embodied through trade and socioeconomic activities, my work aims to reveal the hidden environmental linkages and inequalities within global and national supply chains.

The methodologies I apply include bottom-up emission inventory compilation, environmentally extended input鈥搊utput (EEIO) analysis, atmospheric transport and chemistry modeling, and health impact assessment. Through integrating these approaches, I develop a comprehensive picture of how economic structures, energy systems, and consumption patterns jointly shape environmental outcomes鈥攕upporting more equitable and effective climate and sustainability policies.

2. Household energy behaviors and social influence

I am also interested in understanding household energy behaviors at a granular, household-level scale. I integrate emission analysis from individual choices and behaviors with social influence theories鈥攊ncluding social contagion and diffusion of innovation. Moving beyond simply measuring how much emission is generated, my work investigates how these behaviors are embedded within broader socioeconomic contexts and human interaction networks, such as interdependencies between neighbors or households with similar socioeconomic backgrounds.

3. An experimental approach to understand LLMs in social interactions

I am exploring Generative AIs in social interactions using an experimental approach to understand the behaviors of large language models (LLMs) in social settings. Trained on vast amounts of human-generated data, LLMs may have 鈥渋nternalized鈥� existing biases, stereotypes, and social preferences, mirroring the broader outcomes and characteristics of our society鈥攂oth positive and negative鈥攚hich are then reflected in their generated responses. I am particularly interested in examining the extent to which these social patterns and human-like tendencies emerge in LLM outputs. See ongoing work via . 

I received my PhD degree from the 木瓜福利影视 of East Anglia, UK in 2020.  I am an author of more than 25 peer-reviewed papers in Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Joule, Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Energy and others.  I am a receiver of the Mikahlevich Award by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). I was awarded the Green Talent by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for my studies on responsible production and consumption. I was a visiting scholar in the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in 2022.

Completed Project:

ENgaging Residents in Green energy Investments through Social networks, complExity, and Design (ENRGISED), funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) 

Ongoing Projects:

Social dYnamics in eNergy systems: Resilience, Governance, and PolicY (SYNERGY), funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) 

A Gender Lens to Facilitate Sustainable Climate Actions, funded by the Netherlands Sustainable Cooperation Framework (SCOOP)

People鈥檚 Energy 鈥� The Role of Energy Communities (EC) in Accelerating the Energy Transition, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 Pathway to Sustainability