Prof. Peipei CHEN

Research Interests

Prof. Chen’s research focuses on low-carbon technology deployment, industrial decarbonization pathways, and social impacts of energy transitions. She evaluates the feasibility and adoption potential of key low-carbon technologies and develops decarbonization strategies for hard-to-abate industries, supported by integrated assessments of technology evolution and capacity-expansion pathways. Additionally, she is interested in climate‑related risk, the resilience of energy systems under extreme climate events, and the adaptation and risk management of critical energy infrastructure. Her research interests include:

• Deployment of low‑carbon technologies
• Emissions reduction roadmaps and industrial decarbonisation strategies
• Feasibility and design of net‑zero energy transition pathways
• Renewable energy expansion and system integration
• Social and distributional impacts of climate and energy policy
• Building resilience in energy systems under climate‑related risks

Positions Available

Prof. Chen is recruiting graduate students, research assistants, and postdoctoral fellows to join her group. Candidates should have strong self-motivation, communication skills in English and demonstrated experience in data analysis, scientific programming, and academic writing.

Interested applicants are invited to contact Prof. Chen by email, including a CV, representative publications or writing samples, and a brief outline of proposed research interests.

City University of Hong Kong is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to the principle of diversity. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, especially applicants who will enhance the diversity of our staff.

Selected Publications

1. Ma, S., Meng, J., Lei, T., Tian, K., Liang, X., Jing, L., El-Houjeiri, H., Liang, D., Chen, P., Guan, G. (2026). The plant-level decarbonization pathways and mitigation cost of global oil refineries. Nature Chemical Engineering, 1-13.
2. Luo, R., Liu, J., Chen, P.*, & Luo, J. (2025). Enhancing carbon price robust forecasting: A text-driven method utilizing weighted interval-joint quadratic support vector regression. Energy Economics, 148, 108585.
3. Long, X., Chen, B., Dai, M., Xie, H., Chen, P., Meng, J., & Wang, Y. (2025). Ambitious climate targets can make the phaseout of India’s coal-fired power plants cost-beneficial. Nature Communications.
4. Chen, Y., Wang, Z., Wen, Q., Meng, J., Huo, J., Li, S., Zhou, L., Chen, P., Liang, D., Bi, J. & Guan, D. (2025). A building-scale modeling framework for urban net-zero transitions in Nanjing. Nature Communications1 (2025): 8954.
5. Zhi, Z., Ma, S., Chen, J., Sun, C., Meng, J., Yang, Z., Chen, P., Zhou, C. (2025). An easy and fast method for landfill identification by image-based deep learning. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 219, 108322.
6. Li, S., Meng, J., Hubacek, K., Eskander, S. M., Li, Y., Chen, P., & Guan, D. (2024). Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets. Nature Climate Change, 14(5), 468-475.
7. Long, Y., Yoshida, Y., Huang, L., Chen, P., Wu, Y., & Gasparatos, A. (2024). Demographic transitions hinder climate change mitigation for Japan’s shrinking and aging households. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(3).
8. Chen, P., Zhang, S., Meng, J., Lei, T., Li, B., & Coffman, D. M. (2023). Technological solutions to China's carbon neutrality in the steel and cement sectors. Earth's Future, 11(9), e2022EF003255.
9. Chen, P., Wu, Y., Meng, J., He, P., Li, D., Coffman, D. M., ... & Guan, D. (2022). The heterogeneous role of energy policies in the energy transition of Asia–Pacific emerging economies. Nature Energy, 7(7), 588-596.
10. Chen, P., Wu, Y., Zhong, H., Long, Y., & Meng, J. (2022). Exploring household emission patterns and driving factors in Japan using machine learning methods. Applied energy, 307, 118251.
11. Huo, J., Chen, P., Hubacek, K., Zheng, H., Meng, J., & Guan, D. (2022). Full‐scale, near real‐time multi‐regional input–output table for the global emerging economies (EMERGING). Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(4), 1218-1232.
12. Long, Y., Jiang, Y., Chen, P., Yoshida, Y., Sharifi, A., Gasparatos, A., ... & Guan, D. (2021). Monthly direct and indirect greenhouse gases emissions from household consumption in the major Japanese cities. Scientific Data, 8(1), 301.
13. Meng, J., Hu, X., Chen, P., Coffman, D. M., & Han, M. (2020). The unequal contribution to global energy consumption along the supply chain. Journal of environmental management, 268, 110701.
14. Guan, D., Wang, D., … Chen, P., … Gong, P. (2020). Global supply-chain effects of COVID-19 control measures. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(6), 577–587.
15. Chen, P., Wu, Y., & Zou, L. (2019). Distributive PV trading market in China: A design of multi-agent-based model and its forecast analysis. Energy, 185, 423-436.