Yingying Lu got her PhD in Economics in 2013 from the Australian National University. Her research has been focused on economic modelling which is applied to climate change policy and energy policy.
Yingying has expertise in Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling and she has published quite a few papers on peer-reviewed journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Applied Energy, World Economy and International Review of Economics and Finance, Industrial Ecology and Resource, and Conservation and Recycling. Yingying was also involved in several big projects since she joined in CSIRO in 2017: Australia National Outlook II and International Resource Panel's Global Resource Outlook 2019 and 2024 (ongoing).