Recently, the review results for the 2025 Zhongguancun Award for Outstanding Youth under the Beijing Science and Technology Award were publicly announced. Professor Qu Shen from the Beijing Lab for System Engineering of Carbon Neutrality has been selected as an award recipient.

Established by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government in 2002, the Beijing Science and Technology Award honors outstanding individuals and groups in science and technology. Among its categories, the Zhongguancun Award for Outstanding Youth recognizes young scientists who have made major scientific discoveries advancing relevant disciplines, or achieved innovative breakthroughs in the R&D of key core technologies and promoted the transformation and industrialization of scientific‑technological achievements.

Profile of Professor Qu Shen

As a leading young academic at Beijing Institute of Technology, Professor Qu Shen has long been engaged in research on environmental system engineering, environmental management, together with relevant data‑science methodologies and complex‑system modelling. He has presided over numerous research projects including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, subjects under the National Key R&D Program of China, projects from the National Joint Research Center for Yangtze River Conservation, as well as industry‑cooperation projects.

He has published more than 100 papers in leading domestic and international journals such as The Innovation, Nature Communications, Engineering, Environmental Science & Technology, and Global Environmental Change. His research outcomes have been applied in national water‑grid and power‑grid planning, optimization of environmental‑infrastructure layout, and pollution‑carbon co‑reduction for coal‑chemical enterprises. He provides decision‑making support for national authorities and enterprises including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, National Development and Reform Commission, China Three Gorges Corporation, and China Water Environment Group.

Link to the public notice on review results for the 2025 Beijing Science and Technology Award — Zhongguancun Award for Outstanding Youth:

https://kw.beijing.gov.cn/zwgk/tzgg/202601/t20260116_4437754.html