Chen Lei is an Assistant Research Fellow with a joint appointment at the PKU Institute of Carbon Neutrality. He is a graduate of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University. His research areas include electricity and carbon neutrality, distributed smart grids, wide-area monitoring of new electric power systems, and stability analysis and control. He has authored more than 30 papers published in both foreign and domestic journals and academic conferences, including Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Power Systems, and Instrumentation and Measurement. Additionally, he holds nine invention patents, with some awarded and others pending.

His awards and honors include the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Tsinghua University, a Nomination for the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation  Award  by  the China Instrument and Control Society, and selection into  the Beijing  Association for Science and Technology’s Support Program for Young Scientists. Chen has led or contributed to a number of vertical and horizontal projects funded by entities such as the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the State Grid Corporation of China.