Prof. Dr. Kai Fang got his B.S. from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in June, 2009 and M.S. from Jilin University in June, 2011, one year earlier than normal. By conducting a four-year Ph.D. project in the field of environmental management, he obtained his doctoral degree from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University in November, 2015. He took the position of Researcher with the “One-hundred Talents Program” at the School of Public Affairs, ZJU in December, 2015, and has been working as a Tenured Professor. Currently, he is also the Vice Director of Research Center for Regional Coordinated Development, and the Vice Director of Environmental & Energy Policy Center in ZJU.

 Since 2010, he has been the author of over 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Of these, over 60 papers have been included in Science Citation Index (SCI) and/or Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), such as those for Nature Sustainability, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Energy, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Environmental Management, Ecological Economics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, etc. The average impact factor (IF) for these papers is estimated at 10.146. He has published 10 books, including one in English by Springer Nature, and nine in Chinese by Science Press, ZJU press, China Environment Publishing Group, etc. His publications have been cited by the Sixth IPCC Report, Nature, Science and many other journals for over 2,400 times, several of which have been selected as the ESI Global Top 0.1% Hot Papers and Top 1% Highly Cited Papers. As such, he was included in the Stanford University’s list of the top 2% scientists in the world for 2020 and 2021.

He has been the director of five national-level scientific research programs such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research programs such as the key R&D Programs of Zhejiang Province. He has been playing an active role in reviewing and editing journal articles. He is now serving as the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Sustainability, Guest Editor of Resources, Conservation and Recycling, member of the editorial board of Journal of Cleaner Production, and reviewer for over 50 SCI/SSCI journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Food, Nature Sustainability.

He is also serving in various scientific communities such as the International Society for Industrial Ecology, and International Society for Ecological Economics. He has been financially supported by the Japan Foundation, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Pao Scholarship, and Zeng Xianzi International Exchange Fund as a visiting researcher/student at the University of Tokyo, University of California, Davis, University of Groningen, etc. He was the co-chair for five conferences, and panel chair or committee member for 15 conferences, and has been invited to give presentations in over 90 conferences and symposiums internationally or nationally, which allows his up-to-date research to be of interest to the scientific community in a broad context.

Journal referees: Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Food, Nature Sustainability, Scientific Data, Applied Energy, Applied Geography, Building and Environment, Carbon Balance and Management, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Ecological Economics, Ecological Indicators, Ecosystem Services, Energy, Energy Policy, Energy Research & Social Science, Environmental Science and Policy, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Environmental Science & Technology, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Global Environmental Change, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Land Degradation & Development, Land Use Policy, One Earth, PLOS ONE, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Science Bulletin, Science of the Total Environment, Scientia Sinica Terrae, SpringerPlus, Sustainability, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Urban Water Journal, Waste and Biomass Valorization, Water, etc.

International Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: Applications are invited for candidates who have obtained or are expected to obtain their PhD degrees at any eligible institutions of higher education across the globe, to undertake 2-3 years dedicated postdoctoral research. We are looking for somebody who have capabilities to think across disciplines, preferably with experience in the context of environmental management and policy, climate change, ecological economics, industrial ecology, and/or sustainable development. The fellowship can be up to 300 thousand RMB/yr. For those who may be interested in applying to hold a Fellowship at Zhejiang University, please email your CV and letters of interest to fangk@zju.edu.cn