Yunhuimin

Dr. Huimin Yun is a faculty member at the School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and a researcher at the Institute for Carbon Neutrality. Her research focuses on the low-carbon transition of energy and chemical systems, life cycle assessment (LCA), biomanufacturing, and the energy–water–land nexus.

Dr. Yun received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), supervised by Prof. Xiaotao Bi (FCAE, Director of UBC Clean Energy Research Centre) and Prof. Roland Clift (FRS, FREng, CBE, Founding Chair of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, IPCC Review Editor).

She has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program, and published over 20 papers as first or corresponding author in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology and Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Her goal is to advance systemic approaches and intelligent models to support the green transition and strategic decision-making in the energy and chemical industries.

My research focuses on the low-carbon transition of energy and chemical systems, using life cycle assessment (LCA), process modeling and optimization, and machine learning as core tools, combined with remote sensing and GIS technologies. I study carbon mitigation pathways across scales, from process-level mechanisms to national systems.

Key areas include:

• Energy system transition – Low-carbon pathways and feasibility analysis of China’s power and petrochemical systems;

• Biomass and biomanufacturing – Process modeling, techno-economic evaluation, and environmental impact assessment of biomass conversion;

• Methodological innovation – Multi-scale engineering models, intelligent algorithms, and decision support for sustainable development;

• Nexus and systems analysis – Energy–water–land interactions and regional environmental impact mechanisms.