Yuquan Zhang is an associate professor at SJTU’s China-UK Low Carbon College and formerly an assistant professor at the School of Agriculture and Biology. Prior to joining SJTU in 2015, he worked as a research economist at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in the US and later as a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University and B.S. in Resources Science and Engineering from Beijing Normal University. His primary research interests include, but not limited to, simulating climate change impacts on sectoral economies, exploring low carbon transition pathways, identifying and valuing adaptation strategies, and developing and applying optimization models using the GAMS language. He has been awarded grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, and contracts from the Ministry of Environment and Ecology’s Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy. He published a series of articles in the arena of climate change, and authored quite a few technical reports regarding bioenergy development, international trade and embodied emissions, etc. He serves as an associate deputy editor of Climatic Change.