Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation Committee announced the evaluation results of the National Natural Science Foundation in 2023. The Climate governance and policy simulation project declared by Haoqi Qian, an assistant professor of our institute, was approved for the 2023 National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. The project funding period is 3 years, and the funding is 2 million in total. The project aims at improving China’s climate governance system from the following aspects: 1) Study of multi-level and multi-agent collaborative emission abatement theory; 2) Evaluation the heterogeneous impacts of energy, environmental and climate policies with big data; 3) Coupling modeling of macro-level and micro-level models based on complex systems.

The National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars focuses on supporting young scholars who have made good achievements in fundamental research to independently choose their research directions that can carry out innovative research. The fund aims at promoting the rapid growth of young talents in the field of science and technology and cultivating a group of outstanding academic backbones who are expected to take leading roles throughout the world in the field of science and technology.

Profile of Haoqi Qian

Dr. Haoqi Qian is an assistant professor from Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. He also serves as assistant director at MOE Laboratory for National Development and Intelligent Governance, and assistant director at Shanghai Institute for Energy and Carbon Neutrality Strategy. He got his BA in Economics from Fudan University and Ph.D. in Economics from Fudan University. His research interests are energy and environmental governance, policy simulation and evaluation, social economic analysis with big data. His research articles appear in world leading journals including Nature Sustainability, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Climate Policy as well as in Chinese leading journals including Social Sciences in China, Economic Research Journal.

He has more than ten years experiences in computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling and has developed the Dynamic Regional Economy-Energy-Environment Analysis Model (DREAM). He is the principal investigator of National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and sub investigator of Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China among other national and provincial projects. He has also won awards including first prize in The Eighth Ministry of Education Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences).