Brief CV

Professor, Xiamen University (2022.06- present)

Associate professor, Tianjin University（2018.07-2022.05）

Lecturer, Tianjin University（2015.08-2018.06）

PhD, Xi'an Jiaotong University（2011.09-2015.07）

Research Interests

Climate change mitigation and adaptation

Environmental policy simulation and assessment

Research Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020.01-2023.12, Gains and losses of air pollution control: regional heterogeneity and trans-boundary compensation, PI;

Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program, 2018.07-2021.06, Integrated application of cross-regional collaborative control and management of PM2.5 and ozone, PI;

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2017.01-2019.12, The impact mechanism and coping strategies of carbon reduction regulations on low-income groups, PI.

Selected Publications

Heran Zheng, Yin Long, Richard Wood*, Daniel Moran, Zengkai Zhang*, Jing Meng, Kuishuang Feng, Edgar Hertwich, and Dabo Guan*, 2022, Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation, Nature Climate Change, 12(3), 241-248.

Zengkai Zhang, Dabo Guan*, Ran Wang, Jing Meng*, Heran Zheng, Kunfu Zhu, and Huibin Du*, 2020, Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises, Nature Climate Change, 10(12), 1096-1101.

Zengkai Zhang#*, Jing Meng#, Heran Zheng#, Kunfu Zhu*, Huibin Du*, and Dabo Guan*, 2020, Production Globalization Makes China’s Exports Cleaner, One Earth 2, 468-478.

Zengkai Zhang, ZhongXiang Zhang*, and Kunfu Zhu, 2020, Allocating carbon responsibility: the role of spatial production fragmentation, Energy Economics 87, 104491.

Zengkai Zhang, Yuwan Duan*, and Wei Zhang, 2019, Economic gains and environmental costs from China's exports: Regional inequality and trade heterogeneity, Ecological Economics 164: 106340.

Xi Liu, Huibin Du*, Zengkai Zhang*, John C, Crittenden, Michael L, Lahr, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Dabo Guan, Zhifu Mi, and Jian Zuo, 2019, Can virtual water trade save water resources?, Water research 163, 114848.

Zengkai Zhang*, 2018, Technology-adjusted national carbon accounting for a greener trade pattern, Energy Economics 73, 274-285.

Awards and Honors

2020, Young talents in the field of professional technology (climate Change) of the Ministry of Ecological and Environmental Protection;

2018, First prize of university scientific and technological achievements award in shaanxi province;

2015, Best PhD theses award of shaanxi province.