Hao is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University as well as in RAEL at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a double-degree Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University and Aalborg University, specializing in environmental economics and environmental planning respectively. Hao’s research applies interdisciplinary methods to analyze the pollution sources, health impacts and external cost of air pollution in China.
Hao is deeply interested in environmental policies and their effectiveness at balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability. She is currently collaborating with Professor Liu Zhu, Professor Zhang Qiang, and Professor Daniel Kammen. Her postdoctoral research investigates energy consumption in developing countries and its impacts on CO2 emissions and human health.
She is a lead researcher in the Tsinghua-UC Berkeley and U-Duke University partnership on the health impacts of decarbonization of the power sector in China, California, and elsewhere.
