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Dr Xun Zhou
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

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Xun is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Environmental Economics in the Department of Environment and Geography. He is an Environmental Economist whose research focuses on developing and applying quantitative approaches and economic modelling to address environmental and social sustainability challenges. Xun has developed multivariate quantitative methods – particularly convex quantile regression – to price non-marketed environmental goods, such as greenhouse gas mitigation, and worked on an index framework for assessing the progress of low-carbon transition in hard-to-decarbonise sectors (e.g., transport). His research has been broadened to include emerging streams of sustainability, such as information and communication technology (ICT) for development, and data-driven causal inference (e.g., Synthetic Control Methods).  
 
Prior to joining University of York, Xun worked as a postdoctoral senior researcher at the Chair for Agricultural Production and Resource Economics at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). In 2019, he received his PhD in Economics and Business Administration from Aalto University School of Business (Finland). His doctoral dissertation title was "Low-Carbon Transition: How Successful and at What Cost?"

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Dr Xun Zhou
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Department of Environment & Geography
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5NG

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