You Kairui is Associate Professor and PhD Supervisor at the School of Management / Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Management from Chongqing University and was a joint PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His main research interests include built environment management and energy system modelling.
He has published more than 40 papers in top international journals such as Nature Communications and Nexus. He has undertaken the research projects including the Youth Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Youth Project of the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, the General Program of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Chongqing and the Best Postdoctoral Fellow of Beijing Institute of Technology. He also serves as a reviewer for international SCI/SSCI journals including Nature Communications and Nature Cities.
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at BIT
School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology
5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, P.R.China
Tel: + 86-10-68918651
Fax: + 86-10-68918651
Email: youkairui@bit.edu.cn
Built environment management; Energy system modelling
B.Sc., Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, 2019
Ph.d., Management, Chongqing University, 2024
[1]You, K., Li, Y., et al. (2025). Mitigating emissions and costs through demand-side solutions in Chinese residential buildings. Nature communications, 16(1), 7358.
[2]Qiance Liu, Kairui You., et al. (2026). Sectoral Coordination to Maximize China’s National and Provincial Building Carbon Emissions Mitigation. Engineering, 2476.
[3]Li, Y., You, K*., Song, A., Li, Y., Feng, W., & Yan, J. (2026). Coordinated source–grid–load–storage planning for power system flexibility: A case study in China. Applied Energy, 417, 128032.
[4]Liu, J., Zhou, N., Ma, M., & You, K*. (2026). Decarbonizing China’s private passenger vehicles: A dynamic material flow assessment of metal demands and embodied emissions. Applied Energy, 415, 127923.
[5]Cai, W., Tian, Y., You, K*., et al. (2026). City-level emission transfer of Chinese residential buildings: A perspective of electricity transmission. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 108458.
[6]You, K., Li, Y., Yu, Y., & Zhang, L. (2025). Mapping Cement Stock and Flow at the Chinese city level. Sustainable Cities and Society, 106872.
[7]Li, Y., You, K#., et al. (2025). Lock-in effect of infrastructures metabolism in China's residential centralized heating: View from consumption and production end. Sustainable Cities and Society, 119, 106067.
[8]Zhang, L., Diao, G., & You, K*. (2025). Toward a low-carbon economy: Insights from low-carbon complexity index. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 112, 107856.
[9]Zhang, L., Chen, W., You, K*., & Diao, G. (2025). Improving economic complexity index: Insights from value added. Economic Analysis and Policy, 85, 1391-1408.
[10]Cai, W., Tian, P., You, K*., et al. (2025). Mitigating or pushing? unravelling the dual impact of lifetime on the CO2 emissions from China’s urban residential building sector. Building and Environment, 281, 113236.
[11]You, K., Li, Y., et al. (2024). A provincial analysis of centralized heating systems decarbonization in China's residential sector: History and future. Sustainable Cities and Society, 104, 105306.
[12]You, K., Qian, Q. K., et al. (2024). Subsidy allocation for residential building energy retrofit: A perspective of families' incomes. Sustainable Cities and Society, 104, 105317.
[13]You, K., Ren, H., Cai, W., Huang, R., & Li, Y. (2023). Modeling carbon emission trend in China's building sector to year 2060. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 188, 106679.
[14]You, K., Yu, Y., et al. (2023). The change in temporal trend and spatial distribution of CO2 emissions of China's public and commercial buildings. Building and Environment, 229, 109956.
[15]Shi, Q., Cai, R., Huo, T., You, K*., et al. (2023). A fairly and effectively analysis for the sharing of CO2 emissions reduction responsibility in China's provincial building sectors. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 99, 106984.
[16]You, K., Li, R., et al. (2023). Investigating CO2 emissions and disparity from China's central heating: A perspective at the city level. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 103, 107270.
[17]You, K., Chen, L., et al. (2023). The estimation of carbon imbalance and driving factors in China's urban residential building sector. Urban Climate, 49, 101571.
[18]Wu, K., You, K*., et al. (2022). The impact of industrial agglomeration on ecological efficiency: An empirical analysis based on 244 Chinese cities. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 96, 106841.
[19]You, K., Yu, Y., et al. (2021). Spatiotemporal decomposition analysis of carbon emissions on Chinese residential central heating. Energy and Buildings, 253, 111485.
