Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Prof. Yuli Shan is a Professor in Sustainability at the University of Birmingham. Before joining the University of Birmingham, he worked at the University of Groningen as a Faculty Research Fellow. He got a doctoral degree from the University of East Anglia (2018) and a master’s degree from Fudan University (2014).
Yuli is a Global Highly Cited Researcher and the World's Top 2% Scientist since 2020. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an contributing author for IPCC assessment reports, a coordinating lead authorship for National Climate Change Assessment Report of China, and an executive committee member of the National Association of Input-Output and Big Data of China. He is an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of several journals including Science Bulletin, Scientific Data, Advances in Applied Energy, etc.
Yuli has won a dozen academic prizes including the University of Birmingham Founders' Awards (2023), the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed PhD Students Abroad (2016), and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Green Talents Award (2018). Yuli has been interviewed by renowned media outlets and invited to present his research at international conferences.
Research interests
Prof. Yuli Shan’s research focuses on accounting for carbon emissions, climate change economics, and sustainable development, with a special focus on developing countries and cities. He has published about 200 papers in high-impact journals, including 20+ in Nature and Science entitled journals. His papers have been cited over 22,000 times (h-index 68), and 33 of them are ESI highly cited papers and 20 are hot papers.
Yuli has co-founded an open emission dataset (CEADs.net) to provide the most up-to-date regional emission and energy data for emerging countries and subnational regions.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Climate Change and Development, University of East Anglia
1 Oct 2014 → 18 Jul 2018
Award Date: 18 Jul 2018
Master of Social Science, Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University
1 Sept 2012 → 1 Jun 2014
Award Date: 1 Jun 2014
Bachelor of Science, Statistics, Actuarial Science and Risk, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics
1 Sept 2008 → 1 Jun 2012
Award Date: 1 Jun 2012
External positions
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
8 Aug 2024 → …
University of Groningen
1 Aug 2022 → …
Keywords
- H Social Sciences (General)
- Climate Change Economics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Sustainable Development
- GE Environmental Sciences
- Human Geography
- Urban Studies
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
-
SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 15 Life on Land
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics where Yuli Shan is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 1 Similar Profiles
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
-
Assessing the unequal distribution between social benefits and costs across countries along global supply chains
Zhang, D., Wang, H., Prell, C., Yan, J., Li, Y., Zhou, P., Shan, Y. & Hubacek, K., Jul 2026, In: Ecological Economics. 245, 14 p., 108982.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile22 Downloads (Pure) -
Biodiversity loss from rare earth production for green technologies in China: a global supply chain perspective
Zhou, X., Liu, G., Shan, Y., Li, H., Chang, W., Deng, Q. & Casazza, M., 4 Mar 2026, In: Resources, Environment and Sustainability. 24, 14 p., 100314.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile8 Downloads (Pure) -
China’s unfinished buildings have created stranded assets with substantial resource and socioeconomic costs
Zhang, N., Gao, X., Duan, H., Xiong, G., Yang, Z., Shan, Y., Xu, M., Yang, J. & Bai, X., 15 May 2026, In: One Earth. 9, 5, 14 p., 101649.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile10 Downloads (Pure) -
City-Level Nexus of Embodied Waste Carbon in China
Fang, W., Wang, X., Ye, L., Geng, J., Wu, M., Li, R., Liu, M., Shan, Y., Yang, J., Ma, Z. & Bi, J., 12 May 2026, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 60, 18, p. 13301-13313 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Downloads (Pure) -
Consumption inequalities in material use undermining resources sustainability
Tian, P., Feng, K., Chen, X., Li, D., Jiang, M., Li, J., Zheng, H., Shan, Y. & Sun, L., 16 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Sustainability.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile37 Downloads (Pure)
-
Impacts of Net-Zero Strategies in China and Europe on Regional Atmospheric Mercury Pollution and Synergistic Countermeasures (Carbon-Mercury)
Shan, Y. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/26 → 31/12/27
Project: Research Councils
-
INHABIT (Indoor HABItability during the Transition to Net Zero Housing)
Bloss, W. (Co-Investigator), Zhong, J. (Co-Investigator), Shi, Z. (Principal Investigator), Elliott, R. (Co-Investigator), Prestwood, E. (Co-Investigator), Pfrang, C. (Co-Investigator), Dai, Y. (Co-Investigator), Bartington, S. (Co-Investigator), Jowett, S. (Co-Investigator), Shan, Y. (Co-Investigator), Freer, M. (Co-Investigator) & Liu, B. (Co-Investigator)
13/02/25 → 12/02/30
Project: Research
-
EU-CHINA-BRIDGE - Building Roadmaps to Industrial Decarbonisation and Green Economy through EU-China Cooperation
Shan, Y. (Principal Investigator), Harrison, R. (Co-Investigator) & Shi, Z. (Co-Investigator)
UKRI Horizon Europe Underwriting Innovate UK
1/04/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
-
A Health-centred Systems Approach towards Net-Zero: Transforming regional climate mitigation policies (Heal-NZ)
Shi, Z. (Principal Investigator), Jowett, S. (Co-Investigator), Day, R. (Co-Investigator), Bloss, W. (Co-Investigator), Bartington, S. (Co-Investigator), Cavoski, A. (Co-Investigator), Prestwood, E. (Co-Investigator), Pope, F. (Co-Investigator), Ferranti, E. (Co-Investigator), Shan, Y. (Co-Investigator), Reardon, L. (Co-Investigator) & Wang, X. (Co-Investigator)
1/10/23 → 30/09/27
Project: Research
-
Economic Impacts of Adaptable and Climate-Resilient UK Rail for Net-Zero (Eco-RAIL)
Hang, Y. (Co-Investigator), Shi, Z. (Co-Investigator) & Shan, Y. (Principal Investigator)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
1/07/25 → 30/06/26
Project: Research Councils
Datasets
-
Carbon Emission Accounts and Datasets for emerging economies (CEADs)
Guan, D. (Creator) & Shan, Y. (Creator), www.ceads.net, 2016
Dataset
Activities
-
CEADs summer school 2022
Shan, Y. (Participant)
22 Jul 2022 → 31 Jul 2022Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Other
-
Scientific Data (Journal)
Shan, Y. (Editorial board member)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
-
Green and Low-carbon Economy (Journal)
Shan, Y. (Editorial board member)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
-
Advances in Applied Energy (Journal)
Shan, Y. (Editorial board member)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
-
International Input-Output Association (External organisation)
Shan, Y. (Member)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Prizes
-
2019 Highly Cited Paper of Applied Energy
Shan, Y. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
-
Applied Energy Highly Cited Original Paper
Shan, Y. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
-
-
-