Visiting Student · S²AVE Lab
Nan Liu
Nan Liu is affiliated with the School of Economics and Management at Harbin Engineering University and has been a visiting student at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. She joined S²AVE Lab in June 2025 to study battery policy.
Research Interests
Industrial decarbonisation, multimodal data fusion, digital transformation, energy economics and policy, climate change, and environmental governance.
Selected Publications
- 2026 · Liu, N., et al. Artificial intelligence and the resource–environment economy (article in Chinese). Resources Science.
- 2025 · Liu, N., et al. From Innovation to Integration: The Evolving Role of Carbon Capture and Storage in Global Decarbonization. cScience.
- 2025 · Liu, N., et al. Unlocking Carbon Capture and Storage Potential: Policy Incentives, Economic Challenges, and Infrastructure Integration for CO₂ Transport. CHAIN.
- 2023 · Li, W., et al. Peer effects of digital innovation behavior: an external environment perspective. Management Decision.
- 2023 · Wang, C., et al. The impact of foreign direct investment on China’s industrial carbon emissions based on the threshold model. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
She also co-authored a 2024 project report on how digital transformation could help the energy industry reach carbon neutrality.
Selected Funded Projects
Nan has contributed to nine projects in China and the UK, supporting proposal development, project implementation and reporting.
- 2024–2027 · West Midlands Air Quality Improvement Programme (WM-Air). Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) · Project contributor.
- 2023–2027 · Collaborative governance of pollution and carbon reduction in energy-intensive manufacturing. National Social Science Fund of China, Key Project (23AGL031) · Co-investigator.
- 2022–2026 · Business and consumer responses to China’s carbon peaking and neutrality goals. National Social Science Fund of China, Youth Project (22CGL030) · Co-investigator.
- 2022–2024 · Policy evaluation of Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone and London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone. Research England · Project contributor.
- 2021–2024 · Modelling digital transformation pathways for carbon neutrality in the energy industry. Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LHG2021009) · Co-investigator.
Conferences and Academic Service
She has presented research and chaired sessions at international meetings, including the INFORMS Annual Meeting and the Chinese Economists Society China Conference. She has reviewed for journals including International Journal of Production Economics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Energy and Energy Economics.
Contact
Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK
School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, China