Dr. Kai Li
Dr. rer. pol.
Kai Li
Working at the Institute since July 2025
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+49 241 80 23849
Room: 143
Kackertstr. 7
52072 Aachen
Office Hours
By appointment, registration via e-mail.
Research Focus
- Environmental Assessment of Plastic Waste Treatment
- Global Trade Analysis with Focus on Unit Values and Reporting Asymmetries
Projects
- ACCESS - Active Carbon Capture for Sustainable Synthesis (ACCeSS)
Funding: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Teaching
| WS/SS | Mentoring of students in the context of scientific theses |
Publications
- Li, K., Ward, H., Lin, H.X., and Tukker, A. Economic viability requires higher recycling rates for imported plastic waste than expected. Nat Commun 15, 7578 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51923-4
- Li, K., Ward, H., Lin, H.X., and Tukker, A. Traded plastic, traded impacts? Designing counterfactual scenarios to assess environmental impacts of global plastic waste trade. Environ Sci Technol 58, 8631–8642 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02149
- Li, K., Ma, M., Xiang, X., Feng, W., Ma, Z., Cai, W., and Ma, X. Carbon reduction in commercial building operations: A provincial retrospection in China. Appl Energy 306, 118098 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.118098