Guo Yang

Biography

Dr Guo Yang joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2023 as a Presidential Young Professor/Assistant Professor. His research explores the opportunities for eco-industrial development and sustainable infrastructure systems. Yang is interested in utilizing synergy perspectives to provide policy implications for industrial sector decarbonization. Before joining NUS, he was a Schmidt Science Fellow (postdoctoral) and then an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University. He obtained his B.S. (2014) and PhD (2019) in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University and finished a second undergraduate major in Computer Science.

Qualifications

• PhD, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, 2019
• Minor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2014
• B.S., School of Environment, Tsinghua University, 2014

Honours & Awards

• Early Career Award, Chinese Society for Industrial Ecology, 2022
• Schmidt Science Fellow, 2020
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, 2020
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, Tsinghua University, 2019
• Qian Yi Environment Award, Top Prize, 2018

Research Interests

• Eco-industrial Development
• Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
• Emerging Low-carbon Technologies
• Industrial Sector Decarbonization

Position Held

• Presidential Young Professor/Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, 2023-present
• Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University, 2022-2023
• Schmidt Science Fellow, Princeton University, 2020-2022
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University, 2019-2020

Selected Publications

Principal publications

1. Yang Guo^*,# (co-corresponding and co-first author), Jieyi Lu^#, Qi Zhang, Yunling Cao, Lyujun Chen, Denise L. Mauzerall^*. Co-production of steel and chemicals to mitigate hard-to-abate carbon emissions. Nature Chemical Engineering, 2024,10.1038/s44286-024-00061-1.
2. Yang Guo^* (co-corresponding author), Liqun Peng, Jinping Tian, Denise L. Mauzerall^*. Deploying green hydrogen to decarbonize China’s coal chemical sector. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 8104.
3.  Yang Guo, Denise L. Mauzerall, Yizheng Lyu, Wanqiu Hu, Jinping Tian, Lyujun Chen. Benefits of infrastructure symbiosis between coal power and wastewater treatment. Nature Sustainability, 2022, 5, 1070–1079
4. Yang Guo, Jinping Tian, Lyujun Chen. Managing energy infrastructure to decarbonize industrial parks in China. Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 981.
5. Yang Guo, Mi Zhou, Liqun Peng, Juhua Yang, Mingwei Li, Jinping Tian, Lyujun Chen, Denise L. Mauzerall. Carbon mitigation and environmental co-benefits of a clean energy transition in China’s industrial parks. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57(16), 6494–6505.
6. Yang Guo, Jinping Tian, Na Zang, et al. The role of industrial parks in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from China. Environmental Science & Technology, 2018, 52, 7754–7762.
7. Yang Guo, Jinping Tian, Marian Chertow, et al. Greenhouse gas mitigation in Chinese eco-industrial parks by targeting energy infrastructure: a vintage stock model. Environmental Science & Technology, 2016, 50,11403–11413.
8. Yang Guo, Xianglin Guo, Jinping Tian, et al. Study of reciprocal effects between mandatory pollutant emissions reduction policy and structural change within the manufacturing sector in a Chinese coastal area. Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49, 12840–12850.