BINBIN JIANG PEARCE. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES), Center for Industrial Ecology. Ph.D M.

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1 BINBIN JIANG PEARCE ETH Zurich, D-USYS, Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab), Universitätstrasse 22, CHN K76.2, 8092 Zurich, CH Tel: Mobile: EDUCATION Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES), Center for Industrial Ecology Ph.D M. Phil 2011 Stanford University M.S., Environmental Engineering 2006 B.S. honors, Environmental Engineering 2005 Minor, Human Biology PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE (curriculum development, lecturing, coordination of educational activities) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab), Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) Lecturer, Co-curriculum developer, Pedagogical trainer 4/ present "Umweltproblemlösen I, II, III" (Compulsory Bachelor-level course for ~150 students) Co-developing and testing methods in "integrative systems- and design-based inquiry" to enable students to confront complex problems in sustainable development (with a combination of design thinking and systems thinking concepts) Coordinator, co-curriculum developer, lecturer 4/2017- present "Transdiscipliniary Lab (TdLab) Winter School" (Extracurricular course for ~20 students) Designing and coordinating a week-long program for PhD students and postdocs to develop skills in stakeholder engagement.working together with the mayor and residents of the town of Wislikofon, the students are given an opportunity to reflect on their role as scientists in society and how they would like to bridge their own research with a broader audience Co-curriculum developer/trainer 6/2017- present StrideLab, Impact Hub (Continuing education course for ~20 students) Co-developing workshops that focus on how to improve collaboration in real world projects using concepts in transdisciplinary research, design thinking, systems thinking, and the philosophy of science Project leader/coordinator 5/2016 4/2017 Integrative System and Design-Based Inquiry Innovedum Focus Theme Project, TdLab Co-developed curriculum and tutor training material for the Umweltproblemlösen BSc-level compulsory course based on findings and insights from the TDforSD Innovedum project. Project leader/coordinator 1/2015-4/2016 Teaching Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Development (TDforSD) Innovedum Teaching Project Co-developed new curriculum and teaching methods for the Department of Environmental Systems Science at the Bachelors, Masters and PhD levels based on the integration of design thinking with systems thinking methods. Organized an international workshop on transdisciplinary teaching Sharing experiences in transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and design-thinking based teaching, February

2 Co-curriculum developer/lecturer ETH Week (ETH Sustainability), "Story of Food" 3/2015 9/2015 Co-created and launched the curriculum for a week-long seminar for more than 100 Bachelor-level students in diverse disciplines, focused on developing critical thinking skills, based on design thinking concepts. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Post-doctoral scientific assistant 10/ /2014 ETH Zurich, D-USYS, TdLab - Created and conducted two international workshops in order to initiate the research agenda for a new interdisciplinary environmental sciences program at the Singapore-ETH Zurich Centre (SEC) in Singapore, in a transdisciplinary process bringing together Singaporean government officials, researchers, and ETH professors. - Prepared Innovedum grant for creation of new teaching methods for Bachelor, Master-level students at ETH Zurich. - Carried out research regarding the function of boundary organizations, using the Future Cities Lab as a case study. PhD student 9/2008 8/2013 Yale FES Thesis topic: Phosphorus cycling and its role in urban sustainability - Created an index for identifying phosphorus vulnerability in urban areas. - Extensive field work and application of index in Singapore. - Used phosphorus flows in Singapore as a proxy for understanding the connections between foodenergy-waste systems and their impact on urban sustainability and resilience. Project manager 8/2010 4/2013 "Urban Metabolism Studies in the Jurong Lake District" Yale FES National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore - Designed and implemented 7 months of empirical household-level waste data collection for a team of 15 undergraduate and Masters students from NUS and Masters students from the Yale FES for the Sustainable High-Density Living Urban Metabolism (Industrial Ecology) Studies in the Jurong Lake District Project. - Lead scenario construction workshops on sustainable waste management and collaborative meetings with the strategic research division of the Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA] and the Housing Development Board [HDB] (both Singaporean government agencies). - Created greenhouse gas calculator for URA and HDB to facilitate land planning waste management decision-making in new development area. - Developed a network of Singaporean research groups (Nanyang Technical University, NUS Dept. of Architecture), non-profit groups (Ground-Up Initiative), and businesses for research collaboration and implementation. Research intern 6/2004 1/2005 International Water Management Institute (IWMI), India Carried out 6 months of soil sampling fieldwork and structured interviews with rice farmers for Bachelors honors thesis, "Soil salinity and the effects of wastewater irrigation on rice yields in periurban areas of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh". 2

3 POLICY RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Lead research associate 10/2006-8/2008 Stanford University, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD), USA, China Co-ordinated and lead research between teams in Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Guangdong Techno-economic Research and Development Center, and Stanford University, translation of academic reports from Chinese to English, acted as cultural and language liaison between the American and Chinese research teams. Research fellow 6/2005 9/2005 National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), China Conducted research and produced report on the Clean Coal platform, including field visits to coal mines in Datong, China. ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturer and co-curriculum developer 2/2017-6/2017 Sustainable urban consumption in the Hunziker Areal, Zurich ETH D-USYS, Transdisciplinary Case Study (Masters level course) Created lectures and activities based on design thinking methods and original methods for conducting problem framing for research. Guest lecturer - Sustainable waste management in the Seychelles 3/2016 4/2016 ETH D-USYS, Transdisciplinary Case Study (Masters level course) Created lectures and activities based on design thinking methods and original methods for conducting problem framing for research. Guest lecturer - Verkehrsmittel im Kanton Aargau 1/2016 ETH D-USYS, Einführung in den Umgang mit Uweltsystem (Bachelors level course) Created lectures and activities based in design thinking, aimed at helping students, frame problems and find solutions to complex problems. Guest lecturer Grounded Materials Sustainable materials in construction 6/2015 ETH D-ARCH, Innovedum Summer School Worked together with the Innovedum funding grantees to created two classes helping students with framing problems and analysing stakeholder perspectives within the construction sector. Lecturer/Co-Curriculum developer - Improving Pedestrian Mobility in Addis Ababa 2/2014 9/2014 Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction, and City Development (EiABC) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Co-developed and co-organized a two-week workshop for architecture, engineering, and environmental science Masters and PhD students from ETH Zurich and Ethiopia to practice design thinking approaches for real-world problem solving. The workshop was funded by the Mercator Foundation. A documentary short film and report were produced. Teaching fellow Yale FES Linkages of Sustainability (Masters level course) 1-5/2013 Taught discussion sections exploring topics in urbanization, land competition, food production, and data visualization. Greening Business Operations (Masters level course) 9 12/2010 Organized facility visits to industrial sites around New Haven, Connecticut for students. Industrial Ecology (Masters level course) 1-5/2010 Conducted a workshop on Simapro and life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Lead Masters students on a research trip to conduct a material flow analysis of Hilo and Kailua-Kona areas of 3

4 Hawai i County, Hawai i. Industrial Ecology (Masters level course) 1-5/2011 Conducted a workshop on Simapro and life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Lead Masters students on a research trip to assess the potential for agricultural re-use of organic waste for Hawai i County, Hawai i in conjunction with the Kohala Center. Teaching assistant Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 9/2004-1/2005 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (Bachelor level course) Held office hours to help with thermodynamic, hydraulic, and environmental chemistry problem sets. Helped to organize water sampling fieldwork as a part of the class. PUBLICATIONS LIST Published Quoted Pearce, B. and M. Chertow Scenarios for achieving absolute reductions in phosphorus consumption in Singapore. Journal of Cleaner Production. 140(3), Pearce, B.J Phosphorus Recovery Transition Tool (PRTT): a transdisciplinary framework for implementing a regenerative urban phosphorus cycle. Journal of Cleaner Production, 109, Lippuner, C., Pearce, B. J., Bratrich, C The ETH Sustainability Summer School Programme: an incubator to support change agents for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 16, Jiang, B China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC): a balancing act between enterprise and government. Chapter 9 in Oil and Governance: State-owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply. Cambridge University Press, ed. Mark Thurber, Biggs, T. and B. Jiang Soil salinity and exchangeable cations in a wastewater irrigated area, India. Journal of Environmental Quality, 38, McCartney, M., Scott, C., Enroen, J., Jiang, B., Biggs, T Salinity implications of wastewater irrigation in the Musi River Catchment in India. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences), 37(1), Jiang et. al The future of natural gas consumption in Beijing, Guangdong, and Shanghai: An assessment utilizing MARKAL. Energy Policy, 36(9), Interviewed for: Revkin, A. As the World Goes, So Goes Global Warming The New York Times, 16/12/2007. ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE Sustainability Summer School - ETH Zurich 6-7/2012 Co-designed and constructed an urban aquaponic system on the premises of an outdoor restaurant (Frau Gerold s Garten) in Zurich Engineers for a Sustainable World 6-8/2005 Hut Bay, Andaman Islands, India Designed and implemented a rainwater harvesting and drainage plan for a tsunami relief camp 4

5 Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1/2003 6/2004 Carried out product design and business development for d.light, a social entrepreneurship startup that created a solar-powered LED light for rural regions of India Stanford University, Nepal Clinical Internship, Director 9/2003-6/2005 Organized and participated in a 3-week medical internship program for undergraduate students at the physical therapy ward of Kathmandu Children s Hospital, concentrating on treating Meningitis cases. GRANTS INNOVEDUM 2 ETH Zurich Teaching Grants (CHF 100,000) 1/2015-4/2017 Research grant from the Ministry of National Development 8/2010-3/2013 Singapore Research Fund for the Built Environment: Sustainable High-Density Living Urban Metabolism (Industrial ecology) studies in Jurong Lake District (SG$450,000 over 3 years) Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciencies and Yale FES 9/2009-8/2013 Doctoral Fellowship (US$150,000 over 5 years) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Speaker/Podium moderator - D-USYS Departmental Conference 6/2017 "Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in the Environmental Sciences" Speaker - Competence Conference, Wageningen, The Netherlands 10/2016 Competence development for inter- and transdisciplinary research symposium "Integrative Design-based Inquiry" Speaker - Transdisciplinary Learning Workshop, ETH Zurich 2/2016 Sharing experiences in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and design-based thinking teaching Speaker - Lift Conference, Basel 10/2015 New directions in higher education the case of learning about sustainable food systems Poster and presentation Gordon Conference Industrial Ecology, Les Diablerets, Switzerland 6/2012 A review and classification of urban nutrient balances in concepts and numbers Poster - International Society of Industrial Ecology, Lisbon, Portugal 6/2009 Meeting future energy demand Wedge-by-Wedge in Tianjin Economic Development Area, China OTHER SKILLS Substance/Material Flow Analysis LCA - Simapro ArcGIS R Design thinking facilitation and teaching expertise Fluent in Chinese (Mandarin), writing and reading proficient Performance-level flute and guzheng (Chinese horizontal harp) experience 5

6 German B2 level (conversational speaking, reading and writing proficient) 6