
PhD student
Jiayi Yuan
PhD student
Environmental Data Science and Systems Engineering Research Team, Tsinghua University
Studies packaging material flows and life cycle impacts, post-consumer plastic recovery, recycling scenarios and uncertainty.
Holds a bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from Beijing Forestry University and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Beijing Normal University. Combines MFA and LCA to trace packaging flows over space and time and establish annual mass balances.
Life cycle assessmentEnergy & resourcesIntegrated assessment
Related member publications
A growing selection of verified member publications, including work before joining this team. This is not an exhaustive or exclusively team-owned bibliography. Preprints are listed separately and excluded from published counts.
2025Article
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Carbon footprints of incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification for sewage sludge treatment
36 citations10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107939
2026Article
Environmental Science & Technology
Leveraging LLMs for Environmental Complexity: Structured Fine-Tuning Data Sets and Deployment Strategies
11 citations10.1021/acs.est.5c09526
2026Article
能源环境保护 / Energy Environmental Protection
Evolution and Driving Mechanisms of Industrial Solid Waste in China: A Data-Driven Analysis
0 citations10.20078/j.eep.20260301
2024Article
Journal of Cleaner Production
Life cycle carbon footprints of alternative sludge pretreatment technologies to recover carbon sources for denitrification
Citations unavailable10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143488
2024Article
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Strategic choice of the management of disposable meal boxes from the perspectives of life cycle impact assessment: Recycling fossil plastics or promoting biogenic plastics
Citations unavailable10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107477