Yao Wang (王曜)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests

AI-driven decision-making for sustainable waste management

Greenhouse-gas accounting and MRV for waste systems

Climate-waste interactions and landfill resilience

Fates of plastics and microplastics in disposal sites

About

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, working with Associate Professor Fei Xunchang on sustainable solid waste management, with a particular focus on greenhouse gas emissions from waste systems, waste-climate interactions, the environmental fate and transport of pollutants, and the long-term behavior of plastics and microplastics.

Selected Publications

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Methane emissions differentially underestimated from landfills worldwide

Yao Wang, M. Fang, Y. Guo, X. Pi, Y. J. Wang, H. He, Z. Lou, K. Yin, Xunchang Fei

Nature Sustainability, 2024

Reveals geographically uneven underestimation of landfill methane emissions and identifies mitigation priorities.

Biogeochemical dynamics of major elements in municipal solid waste landfills can induce health risks for nearly 1 billion people

Yao Wang, C. Zhou, H. Zhang, S. Ma, Z. Lou, L. Raskin, S. Skerlos, F. Coulon, D. Zekkos, A. Hussain, A. Hussain, G. Lisak, M. Fang, K. Yin, H. He, Yuan Wang, Xunchang Fei

One Earth, 2025

Quantifies landfill biogeochemical dynamics and their implications for human health risks at global scale.

Underestimated methane emission from solid waste disposal sites reveals missed greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities

Yao Wang, C. Zhou, Z. Lou, H. Zhang, A. Hussain, L. Zhan, K. Yin, M. Fang, Xunchang Fei

Engineering, 2024

Connects underestimated methane from disposal sites with missed greenhouse-gas mitigation opportunities.

Property changes of conventional plastic waste mixed with municipal solid waste after 10-year degradation experiments simulating landfill conditions

Yao Wang, X. Lu, Xunchang Fei

Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters, 2021

Investigates long-term property changes of plastic waste under simulated landfill degradation conditions.

Underappreciated majority of solid waste: insufficient data and unclear impacts

Yao Wang, K. Yin, M. Fang, Xunchang Fei

The Innovation, 2025

Highlights data gaps and uncertain impacts for the majority of solid waste streams.