STUDENT FELLOWS

Xiaoxue Hou is an incoming PhD Student in the division of Energy, Resources and Environment at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests reside in energy policy analysis in developing economies especially in East and South Asia, using statistical methods and systems modeling. Xiaoxue has an interdisciplinary background in GIS, finance, applied math, and environmental system engineering. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Geographical Science at Nanjing University with a minor in Finance. She is currently finishing a Masters in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She has done research in SEARCH center on downscaling energy model emissions, during which she gained knowledge of large-scale energy models and national power sectors.

As an ISEP student fellow, she will conduct research in areas concerning sustainable energy policy design in emerging economies. She will specifically look at China’s carbon trading market and the synergies between price-driven policies and quantity-driven policies in China’s low carbon energy market.