Independent Standards Board Member
Professor, Tsinghua University
Ming Xu is the Chair Professor of Carbon Neutrality and Associate Dean in School of Environment at Tsinghua University. Prior to that, he was a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on environmental systems engineering, life cycle assessment and environmental artificial intelligence. He received the Robert A. Laudise Medal from International Society for Industrial Ecology in 2015, the US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016, the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from American Society of Civil Engineers in 2021 and the Amazon Research Award in 2024. He was the President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology for 2023-2024. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s flagship journal in environmental management, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, and a member of the UNEP’s International Resource Panel. He has been leading the TianGong Initiative to develop the TianGong LCA Infrastructure.