Dr. Xianlai Zeng joined Tsinghua University in 2016 as an associate professor of urban mining and circular economy at the School of Environment. In recent years, he was invited to act as visiting staff at Coventry University (2012), visiting fellow at Macau University (2012-2013), visiting professor at Macquarie University (2017), and Fulbright fellow at Yale University (2018-2019). He is also invited for an adjunct distinguished professor at Hunan University of Technology and Business.

Dr. Xianlai Zeng‘s research focuses on several frontiers of science, technology, and policy of waste recycling and circular economy. In particular, he is developing and applying methods of material flow analysis, industrial ecology and circular Economy. He proposed the emerging concept and framework of anthropogenic circularity science.

Dr. Zeng has authored and co-authored over 140 peer-review articles (including several in Science, Nature Communications, and Science Bulletin) and six monographs. His books like “Material Flow Analysis and Its Applications” and “Treatment and Disposal of Solid Waste and Its Cases” have been adopted as textbooks or main references in a number of universities globally. He served as a Lead Author for the circularity chapter of UNEP GEO-7. He has delivered more than 60 invited lectures and seminars at top academic institutions as well as many international conferences and science/policy forums. He has supervised award-winning Ph. D and Honors students.

Dr Zeng can be contacted via Email: xlzeng@tsinghua.edu.cn. More information is available on his personal webpage at https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/enven/info/1052/1964.htm