Dr Pu Yang is a researcher at UCL’s Centre for Net Zero Market Design, where she leads a UKERC WSNF project co-creating transparent models of energy storage with market participants and communities. Her work examines how the value of long-duration storage is understood, realised and represented in UK electricity decision-making, combining agent-based and optimisation modelling with participatory, stakeholder-led engagement, alongside wider research on climate and energy policies, carbon pricing and sustainable finance.
Before joining UCL, she worked for two years on the Climate Compatible Growth programme in the University of Oxford (Energy and Power Group), and has been a Skoll Early Career Fellow and a Research Member of Common Room at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. She has published in leading journals including Nature Energy, One Earth and Global Environmental Change, and her analyses of carbon pricing, the social cost of carbon and the equity of international climate policy have been taken up in policy. Her research has been recognised through awards from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), a UCL Department PhD Scholarship, the China Scholarship Council and the Great Britain-China Educational Trust.
