Dr. Zhen Lei

Biography

Zhen Lei is a professor specializing in energy and environmental economics at Penn State University. He has extensive expertise in both economics and natural sciences, holding Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and in Chemistry Pharmaceutical Sciences from Peking University Health Sciences Center. His research interests are multidisciplinary, focusing on energy and environmental economics, health economics, science and technology policy, economics of innovation and intellectual properties, big data, and applied econometrics. He conducts policy-oriented, data-intensive research that addresses the nexus of energy, environment, public health, and innovation. His research has received funding from prominent agencies including the U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and he has published in top-tier journals across multiple fields.

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