Researcher Profiles

The Harvard-China Project is back to full capacity post-pandemic, welcoming a host of new scholars this past spring and summer. With 30 years of collaborations with Chinese universities, many of these scholars and professors come to our program at the...

For the first time since 2018, the Harvard-China Project and the Mignone Center for Career Success funded eight weeks of undergraduate research at our partner universities in China. Shawn Mobley '26 and Anna MacLennan '25 worked with Professor Xi Lu at...

Xinyang Guo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Xinyang, where did you grow up, and how old were you when you first discovered a love for renewable energy research? I grew up in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, an ancient cultural city in Central...

Jack Walker '24 Jack, where did you grow up, and how old were you when you first discovered a love for renewable energy research? I’m from a military family—my parents met in the Air Force—so we moved around a lot. However, I was able to remain in the...

Candice Chen '22 Candice, where did you grow up, and how old were you when you first discovered a love for climate change/environmental research? I mostly grew up in Nashville, TN. Going into college, I had very little sense of what I wanted to study or...

Zheng Wang, Peking University Zheng, where did you grow up, and how old were you when you first discovered a love for energy/economy? I grew up in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, China, where “water can be burned (oil)” was recorded during the Eastern Han...

Chen Xiang, Hong Kong University Chen, where did you grow up, and how old were you when you first discovered a love for environmental politics? Growing up in a very localized tier-four city in Hunan province of Mainland China, I went to one of the biggest...

Ph.D Harvard University, Earth & Planetary Sciences Peter, what are your research interests, and what draws you to the field of energy/climate change research? I mainly am interested in implications of regional climate change on people and how we can try...

Peter Sherman Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Researcher, Harvard-China Project Watching a fast-paced NBA basketball game, most sports fans rarely pause to reflect on the analytics underpinning a team’s game strategy. But...

Shaojie Song Research Associate, Harvard-China Project In 2008, as Shaojie Song was finishing his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the city was preparing to host the summer Olympics and struggling to contain its air pollution. “It...