Zhenxuan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Economics and a James B. Duke Fellow at Duke University. He is interested in environmental and energy economics, climate policy, and development economics. His research aims to understand the efficiency and distributional impacts of amenity improvements and policy instruments for climate change mitigation. Prior to Duke, Zhenxuan worked as a research associate at the Environmental Research Center of Duke Kunshan University. He received his B.A. in Economics and B.Sc. in Mathematics from Wuhan University.