Biography：

Huizhong Shen is an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Peking University and conducted postdoctoral research at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the characterization, driving forces, and impacts of regional and global emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. His representative contributions include: (1) systematic assessments of the global emissions, atmospheric transport, and lung cancer risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; (2) elucidation of how population migration during China's urbanization has affected residential energy transitions, pollutant emissions, air quality, and public health; and (3) evaluation of the impacts of climate change, energy policies, and related drivers on pollutant emissions, air quality, croplands, and natural ecosystems. He is committed to advancing air-quality modeling and forward and adjoint sensitivity analysis for diagnosing severe air-pollution episodes, assessing health impacts, and constraining emissions through inverse modeling. His research has been published in journals including Nature Climate Change, Nature Food, Nature Human Behaviour, Science Advances, One Earth, and Environmental Science & Technology. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, with over 10,000 citations in Web of Science and an H-index of 61.

Professional Experience：

2022-present, Associate Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

2021-2022, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

2016-2020, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2014-2016, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University

Education：

2009-2014, Ph.D., College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University

2005-2009, B.S., College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University

Academic Service：

1. Editorial Advisory Board Member, Environmental Science & Technology

2. Editorial Board Member, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

Research Interests：

Quantitative characterization of greenhouse-gas and air-pollutant emissions, and analysis of their driving forces and environmental and health impacts

Teaching:

1. Undergraduate course: Air Pollution Prevention and Control (Instructor)

2. Graduate course: Numerical Modeling of the Atmospheric Environment (Instructor)

Selected Publications：

1. Xie, D., Shen, H.*, Zhang, R., Mai, Z., Guan, T., Guo, P., Wang, Z., Chen, Y., Shen, G., Tao, S., 2026. Substantial PM2.5-Related Health Gains from Large-Scale Migration in China. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6c00289.

2. Zhang, J., Shen, H.*, Lei, T., Zheng, Z., Zheng, L., Shen, G., He, J., Guo, P., Xu, R., Chen, Y., Cheng, Y., Su, H., Sun, H.Z., Meng, J., Guan, D., 2026. Plant-Level Health Benefits from Decarbonizing the Iron and Steel Industry in China. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c11135.

3. Wang, Z., Shen, H.*, Zhang, R., Xu, R., Guo, P., Zheng, Z., He, J., Wu, S., Chen, Y., Xie, D., Zhang, J., Zheng, L., Su, H., Guan, D., 2026. Construction activities drive half of China's ambient PM2.5 health burden. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology 29: 100666.

4. Wang, Z., Shen, H.*, Xie, D., Li, G., Xu, R., Chen, Y., Zheng, L., Zhang, R., Guo, Z., Wang, C., Ye, J., Zeng, Z., 2026. Urban-rural divergence in construction-related CO2 emissions in China amidst urbanization. Resources, Environment and Sustainability 100362.

5. Xu, R., Shen, H.*, Wang, P., Wang, T., Chen, Y., Guo, P., Mai, Z., He, J., Zheng, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, Z., Meng, J., Zhu, Y., Zhang, Y., Li, J., Dai, R., Zheng, S., Wang, C., Ye, J., Zhu, L., Shen, G., Fu, T.-M., Yang, X., Russell, A.G., Tao, S., 2026. Operational efficiencies reduce emission intensity of online shopping in China by one-third between 2000 and 2023. One Earth 9: 101564.

6. Zheng, Z., Shen, H.*, Chen, Y., Guo, P., Wang, Z., Zheng, L., Liu, Q., Luan, T., Sun, H.Z., Tao, S., 2026. Advancing Finely Resolved Adjoint Analysis of Global Premature Mortality From Ambient PM2.5 Exposure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 131: e2025JD043629.

7. Xu, R., Shen, H.*, Wang, P., Wang, T., Chen, Y., Guo, P., Mai, Z., He, J., Zheng, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, Z., Meng, J., Wang, C., Ye, J., Zhu, L., Shen, G., Fu, T.-M., Yang, X., Russell, A.G., Tao, S., 2025. E-commerce growth reduces primary PM2.5 emissions but increases secondary PM2.5 precursors in China. Environmental Science & Technology 59(41): 22060−22073.

8. Zhang, R., Chen, Z., Wu, X., Liu, Q., Mai, Z., Zheng, Z., Chen, Y., Tao, S., Hu, Y., Zhao, S., Hakami, A., Russell, A.G. and Shen, H.*, 2025. Adjoint analysis of PM2.5 and O3 episodes in priority control zones in China. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology 27: 100612.

9. Zheng, L., Adalibieke, W., Zhou, F.*, He, P.*, Chen, Y., Guo, P., He, J., Zhang, Y., Li, J., Li, W., Gan, Y., Xu, P., Wang, C., Ye, J., Zhu, L., Shen, G., Fu, Y.-M., Yang, X., Zhao, S., Hakami, A., Meng, J.*, Shen, H.*, 2025. Indirect emissions contribute a quarter of air pollution-related health burden of food systems in China. Nature Food 6: 766−776.

10. Han, Y., Shen, H.*, He, X., Mai, Z., Zhang, R., Zheng, Z., Liu, Y., Zhang, X., Li, G., Zhang, Z., Liang, Z., Chen, Y., Xie, Y., Li, M., Shen, G., Wang, C., Ye, J., Zhu, L., Fu, T., Yang, X., 2025. A Comprehensive Analysis of Interflight Variability in Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Global Aviation. Environmental Science & Technology 59: 6179−6191.

11. Guo, P., Shen, H.*, Chen Y., Dai H., Mai Z., Xu R., Zhang R., Wang Z., He J., Zheng L., Sun H.Z., Ke K., Meng J., Liu M., Li J., Adalibieke W., Wang C., Ye J., Zhu L., Shen G., Fu, T.-M., Tsang A., Yang X., Russell A.G., Driscoll C.T., Tao S., 2024. Carbon dioxide emissions from global overseas coal-fired power plants. Nature Climate Change 14: 1151–1157.

12. Zheng L., Adalibieke W., Zhou F.*, He, P.*, Chen Y., Guo, P., He J., Zhang Y., Xu P., Wang C., Ye J., Zhu L., Shen G., Fu, T.-M., Yang X., Zhao S., Hakami A., Russell A.G., Tao S., Meng J.*, Shen, H.*, 2024. Health burden from food systems is highly unequal across income groups. Nature Food 5: 251–261.

13. Mai, Z., Shen, H.*, Zhang, A., Sun, H., Zheng, L., Guo, J., Liu, C., Chen, Y., Wang, C., Ye, J., Zhu, L., Fu, T.-M., Yang, X., Tao, S., 2024. Convolutional Neural Networks Facilitate Process Understanding of Megacity Ozone Temporal Variability. Environmental Science & Technology https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c07907.

14. He, J., Shen, H.*, Lei, T., Chen, Y., Meng, J., Sun, Z., Li, M., Wang, C., Ye, J.H., Zhu, L., Zhou, Z.H., Shen, G., Guan, D., Fu, T.-M., Yang, X., Tao, S., 2023. Investigation of Plant-Level Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Chemical Industry Highlights the Importance of Differentiated Control in China. Environmental Science & Technology 57(50): 21295–21305.

15. Zhang, J., Shen, H.*, Chen, Y., Meng, J., Li, J., He, J., Guo, P., Dai, R., Zhang, Y., Xu, R., Wang, J.H., Zheng, S., Lei, T., Shen, G., Wang, C., Ye, J., Zhu, L., Sun, H., Fu, T.-M., Yang, X., Guan, D., Tao, S., 2023. Iron and Steel Industry Emissions: A Global Analysis of Trends and Drivers. Environmental Science & Technology 57(43): 16477–16488.

16. Zheng, S., Shen, H.*, Shen, G., Chen, Y., Ma, J., Cheng, H., Tao, S., 2022. Vertically-resolved indoor measurements of air pollution during Chinese cooking. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology 12: 100200.

17. Shen, H., Luo, Z., Xiong, R., Liu, X., Zhang, L., Li, Y., Du, W., Chen, Y., Cheng, H., Shen, G., Tao, S., 2021. A critical review of pollutant emission factors from fuel combustion in home stoves. Environment International 157: 106841.

18. Shen, H.*, Sun, Z. (co-1st), Chen, Y., Russell, A.G., Hu, Y., Odman, M.T., Qian, Y., Archibald, A.T., Tao, S., 2021. Novel method for ozone isopleth construction and diagnosis for the ozone control strategy of Chinese cities. Environmental Science & Technology 55(23): 15625-15636.

19. Zhang, B., Shen, H.*, Liu, P., Guo, H., Hu, Y., Chen, Y., Xie, S., Xi, Z., Russell, A.G., 2021. Significant contrasts in aerosol acidity between China and the United States. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21: 8341–8356.

20. Shen, H., Shen, G.*, Chen, Y., Russell, A.G., Hu, Y., Duan, X., Meng, W., Xu, Y., Yun, X., Lyu, B., Zhao, S., Hakami, A., Tao, S., Smith, K.R., 2021. Increased air pollution exposure among the Chinese population during the national quarantine in 2020. Nature Human Behaviour, 5: 239–246.

21. Shen, H., Hou, W., Zhu, Y., Zheng, S., Ainiwaer, S., Shen, G., Chen, Y., Cheng, H., Hu, J., Tao, S.*, 2021. Temporal and spatial variation of PM2.5 in indoor air monitored by low-cost sensors. Science of The Total Environment, 770: 145304.

22. Shen, H., Liu, B., Chen, Y., Zhu, X., Yun, X., Meng, W., Lu, C., Shen, G., Hu, Y., Russell, A.G., Smith, K.R., Tao, S.*, 2021. Individual and population level protection from particulate matter exposure by wearing facemasks. Environment International, 146: 106026.

23. Shen, H.*, Chen, Y., Hu, Y., Ran, L., Lam, S.K., Pavur, G.K., Zhou, F., Pleim, J.E., Russell, A.G., 2020. Intense warming will significantly increase cropland ammonia volatilization threatening food security and ecosystem health. One Earth, 3(1): 126-134.

24. Chen, Y., Shen, H.*, Shih, J.S., Russell, A.G., Shao, S., Hu, Y., Odman M.T., Nenes, A., Pavur, G.K., Zou, Y., Chen, Z., Smith, R., Burtraw, D., Driscoll, C.T., 2020. Greater contribution from agricultural sources to future reactive nitrogen deposition in the United States. Earth’s Future, 11: e2019EF001453.

25. Zhao, Y., Zhang, K.*, Xu, X., Shen, H.*, Zhu, X., Zhang, Y., Hu, Y., Shen, G., 2020. Substantial changes in nitrogen dioxide and ozone after excluding meteorological impacts during the COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 7(6): 402-408.

26. Zhong, Q., Shen, H.*, Yun, X., Chen, Y., Ren, Y., Xu, H., Shen, G., Du, W., Meng, J., Li, W., Ma, J., Tao, S., 2020. Global sulfur dioxide emissions and the driving forces. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(11): 6508–6517.

27. Shen, H.*, Chen, Y. (co-1st), Li, Y. (co-1st), Russell, A.G., Hu, Y., Henneman, L.R.F., Odman, M.T., Shih, J.S., Burtraw, D., Shao, S., Yu, H., Qin, M., Chen, Z., Lawal, A.S., Pavur, G.K., Brown, M.A., Driscoll, C.T., 2019. Relaxing energy policies coupled with climate change will significantly undermine efforts to attain U.S. ozone standards. One Earth, 1(2): 229–239.

28. Shen, H., Tao, S.*, Chen, Y., Odman, M.T., Zou, Y., Huang, Y., Chen, H., Zhong, Q., Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., Su, S., Lin, N., Zhuo, S., Li, B., Wang, X., Liu, W., Liu, J., Pavur, G.K. and Russell, A.G., 2019. Global Fire Forecasts Using Both Large-Scale Climate Indices and Local Meteorological Parameters. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33(8): 1129–1145.

29. Zhong, Q., Shen, H.*, Yun, X., Chen, Y., Ren, Y., Xu, H., Shen, G., Ma, J. and Tao, S., 2019. Effects of International Fuel Trade on Global Sulfur Dioxide Emissions. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 6(12): 727–731.

30. Shen, H., Chen, Y., Russell, A.G., Hu, Y., Shen, G., Yu, H., Henneman, L.R.F., Ru, M., Huang, Y., Zhong, Q., Chen, Y.C., Li, Y., Zou, Y., Zeng, E.Y., Fan, R. and Tao, S.*, 2018. Impacts of rural worker migration on ambient air quality and health in China: From the perspective of upgrading residential energy consumption. Environment International, 113: 290–299.

31. Shen, H., Tao, S.*, Chen, Y., Ciais, P., Guneralp, B., Ru, M., Zhong, Q., Yun, X., Zhu, X., Huang, T., Tao, W., Chen, Y., Li, B., Wang, X., Liu, W., Liu, J. and Zhao, S., 2017. Urbanization-induced population migration has reduced ambient PM2.5 concentrations in China. Science Advances, 3(7).

32. Shen, H., Tao, S.*, Liu, J., Huang, Y., Chen, H., Li, W., Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., Su, S., Lin, N., Xu, Y., Li, B., Wang, X. and Liu, W., 2014. Global lung cancer risk from PAH exposure highly depends on emission sources and individual susceptibility. Scientific Reports, 4: 6561.

33. Shen, H., Huang, Y., Wang, R., Zhu, D., Li, W., Shen, G., Wang, B., Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., Lu, Y., Chen, H., Li, T., Sun, K., Li, B., Liu, W., Liu, J. and Tao, S.*, 2013. Global Atmospheric Emissions of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from 1960 to 2008 and Future Predictions. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(12): 6415–6424.

34. Shen, H., Tao, S.*, Wang, R., Wang, B., Shen, G., Li, W., Su, S., Huang, Y., Wang, X., Liu, W., Li, B. and Sun, K., 2011. Global time trends in PAH emissions from motor vehicles. Atmospheric Environment, 45(12): 2067–2073.