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Bio

Biographical Sketch

Zhen Lei is currently an Assistant Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics. He has expertise in both economics and science, holding a Ph.D. degree in Economics and a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry. His research interests include economics of innovation, intellectual property policy and entrepreneurship, energy and environmental economics, science and technology policy, and industrial organization.

Educational Background

Ph.D. (Agricultural and Resource Economics), University of California at Berkeley, 2009

Ph.D. (Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences), Peking University Health Sciences Center, 2000

M.S. (Organic Chemistry), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1997

B.S. (Chemistry), Wuhan University, 1993

Active Research Projects

Dr. Lei's research interests include innovation, intellectual property rights and entrepreneurship, energy and environmental economics, industrial organization, and science and technology policy. Presently, he works on patent evaluation in the context of international patenting and patent litigation, technology innovation and technology transfer in addressing climate change, economics of electricity markets, and energy and environmental issues related to China, his home country.

Selected Publications

1. Zhen Lei, Rakhi Juneja and Brian Wright, "Patents vs. Patenting: Implications of Intellectual Property Protection for Biological Research", Nature Biotechnology, 2009(1), 27, 36-40.
2. Steven E. Sexton, Zhen Lei and David Zilberman, "The Economics of Pesticides and Pest Control", International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2007, 1(3), 271-326.
3. Zhen Lei, Weiguo Chen, Min Zhang and Joseph L. Napoli, "Reduction of all-trans-retinal in the mouse liver peroxisome fraction by the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase RRD: induction by the PPARa-ligand clofibrate", Biochemistry, 2003, 42, 4190-4196.
4. Zhen Lei, Ling Zhang, Liang Ren Zhang, Jun Chen, Jimei Min and Lihe Zhang, "Hybrid Characteristics of oligonucleotides consisting of isonucleoside 2',5'-anhydro-3'-deoxy- 3'-(thymin-1-yl)-D-mannitol with different linkage modes", Nucleic Acids Research, 2001, 29(7), 1470-1475.
5. Zhen Lei, Jimei Min, Lihe Zhang, "Synthesis of 3-deoxy-3-nucleobase -2,5-anhydro-D -mannitol: a novel class of hydromethyl-branched isonucleosides", Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 2000, 11, 2899-2906.
6. Weisheng Tian, Zhen Lei, Ling Chen, Ying Huang, "Some new reactions of per(poly)alkyl sulfonyl floride with steriodic molecules", Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2000, 101, 305-308.

Research Interests

• Economics of innovation, intellectual property policy and entrepreneurship
• Energy and environmental economics
• Science and technology policy
• Empirical econometrics

Teaching

ENNEC 100 - Introduction to Energy and Earth Sciences Economics (3)