Yiwei Zhang

About

C. Yiwei Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research lies at the intersection of economics and psychology, focusing on understanding how consumers make financial decisions and how these decisions impact well-being and market outcomes. Additionally, his work explores how the financial decisions of households may be unintentionally influenced by features of the institutional environment surrounding them. Prior to joining UW-Madison, Zhang was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and he also worked as an Economist in the Office of Research at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School's program in Applied Economics.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Waste management
• Biology
• Pulp and paper industry
• Environmental science
• Organic chemistry
• Biochemistry

Selected publications

• Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams

  ChemSusChem · 2020 · 75 citations

  Invited for this month's cover is the research team from the D.O.E. Great Lake Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The cover image shows how a diverse team with expertise in many different fields works together in an integrated fashion to address complex problems. Only when the whole system, from field to the liquid fuels and co-products, is assessed, can we identify the key parameters needed to design an economically viable biorefinery-based economy. Cover…

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• Crabtree/Warburg-like aerobic xylose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Metabolic Engineering · 2021 · 65 citations

  Bottlenecks in the efficient conversion of xylose into cost-effective biofuels have limited the widespread use of plant lignocellulose as a renewable feedstock. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ferments glucose into ethanol with such high metabolic flux that it ferments high concentrations of glucose aerobically, a trait called the Crabtree/Warburg Effect. In contrast to glucose, most engineered S. cerevisiae strains do not ferment xylose at economically viable rates and yields, and they requi…

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• Metabolic mechanism of Cr(VI) pollution remediation by Alicycliphilus denitrificans Ylb10

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2023-12-07 · 13 citations

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  Cr(VI) is a well-known toxic pollutant and its remediation has attracted great attention. It is important to continuously discover and explore new high-efficiency Cr(VI) reducing bacteria to further improve the efficiency of Cr(VI) pollution remediation. In this paper, metabolic mechanism of Cr(VI) reduction in a new highly efficient Cr(VI) reducing bacterium, Alicycliphilus denitrificans Ylb10, was investigated. The results showed that Ylb10 could tolerate and completely reduce 450 mg/L Cr(VI).…

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• Utilization of lignocellulosic biofuel conversion residue by diverse microorganisms

  Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts · 2022-06-24 · 7 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Lignocellulosic conversion residue (LCR) is the material remaining after deconstructed lignocellulosic biomass is subjected to microbial fermentation and treated to remove the biofuel. Technoeconomic analyses of biofuel refineries have shown that further microbial processing of this LCR into other bioproducts may help offset the costs of biofuel generation. Identifying organisms able to metabolize LCR is an important first step for harnessing the full chemical and economic potential…

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• pH adjustment increases biofuel production from inhibitory switchgrass hydrolysates

  Bioresource Technology · 2025-05-09 · 6 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Joshua J. Coon

  Morgridge Institute for Research

  88 shared

• Trey K. Sato

  Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

  79 shared

• Robert Landick

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  76 shared

• Jose Serate

  Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

  59 shared

• Dan Xie

  Central China Normal University

  52 shared

• Alan Higbee

  Energy Center of Wisconsin

  51 shared

• Edward L. Pohlmann

  Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

  50 shared

• Mick McGee

  Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

  40 shared

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