北卡罗来纳州立大学等两位专家讲述科技创新应对重大挑战

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北京时间4月15日晚八点，iCANX Youth Talks第93期邀请到了Climate Action Platform for Africa 的CEO Jack Kimani 、北卡罗来纳州立大学Jacob L. Jones教授担任主讲，成均馆大学教授Miso Kim，北京大学教授张海霞担任研讨嘉宾，北卡罗来纳州立大学教授Martin Thuo担任主持人，期待你一起加入这场知识盛宴。

【嘉宾介绍】

Jack Kimani

Climate Action Platform for Africa

climate positive economic development

【BIOGRAPHY】

Jack Kimani is the Founding CEO of the Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A), a system orchestrator focused on unlocking Africa’s potential as a global hub for climate action that underpins a new climate smart model of economic growth and inclusive livelihoods. He has over 25 years of professional experience with his work cutting across sectors and geographies. Recent work has focused on helping African governments unlock their potential as globally competitive locations for climate action, and showing how this could have substantial co-benefits for inclusive growth. As part of this work, he has worked closely with policymakers, business leaders and social entrepreneurs to systemically reorient their economic growth and development plans towards realizing Climate Positive Growth i.e. economic growth through climate action.Formerly, Mr. Kimani was a founding member of the Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI) and the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) of the Clinton Foundation where he played a key role in growing both initiatives early operations. In 2008, he was tasked with setting up the CCI programs in East Africa which included initiating joint planning with multiple government, community and NGO partners to help develop large scale conservation and restoration projects and accompanying systems for measurement, reporting, and verification. Prior to joining the Clinton Foundation, Mr. Kimani was a corporate finance professional working in the United States managing the financial operations for a business unit of a Forbes 400 leading logistics and transport company.Mr. Kimani is an MBA graduate of the University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh). He also holds an Economics degree from the University of Wisconsin (Green Bay).

杰克·基马尼（Jack Kimani）是非洲气候行动平台（Climate Action Platform for Africa，简称CAP-A）的创始首席执行官。该平台是一个系统协调者，专注于释放非洲作为全球气候行动中心的潜力，推动一种新的气候智能型经济增长和包容性生计模式。他拥有超过25年的专业经验，其工作跨越多个行业和地理区域。近期，他的工作重点是帮助非洲国家释放其作为全球气候行动竞争地的潜力，并展示这一行动如何为包容性增长带来显著的协同效益。作为这项工作的一部分，他与政策制定者、商界领袖和社会企业家密切合作，系统地将其经济增长和发展计划转向实现气候正增长，即通过气候行动实现经济增长。此前，基马尼先生是克林顿基金会的克林顿-亨特发展倡议（Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative，简称CHDI）和克林顿气候倡议（Clinton Climate Initiative，简称CCI）的创始成员，在这两个倡议的早期运营中发挥了关键作用。2008年，他负责在东非设立CCI项目，包括与多个政府、社区和非政府组织伙伴共同规划，以帮助开发大规模保护和恢复项目以及配套的测量、报告和验证系统。在加入克林顿基金会之前，基马尼先生在美国从事企业金融工作，管理一家《福布斯》400强领先物流和运输公司的业务部门的财务运营。基马尼先生毕业于威斯康星大学奥什科什分校，获得工商管理硕士学位（MBA）。他还拥有威斯康星大学格林湾分校的经济学学士学位。

Jacob L. Jones

北卡罗来纳州立大学

Phosphorus Sustainability and Role of Large Efforts in Addressing Major Challenges【ABSTRACT】

Phosphorus (P) is a critical component of cellular structures like DNA and processes like energy transfer and underpins the productivity of food systems as a key nutrient in fertilizers. Yet many challenges exist around the availability, application, management, and disposal or reuse of P: P is sourced from non-renewable phosphate rock, is inefficiently utilized in food systems, and accumulates in terrestrial systems such as soils and freshwater sources, the latter of which causes harmful algal blooms and hypoxia of marine life. Without intervention, the environmental, economic, and sustainability issues involving phosphorus will escalate with continued world population growth. In fact, a paradigm shift is needed in how we discover and develop materials, technologies, and strategies to control, recover, reuse, and manage phosphorus such that the solutions can have a transformative impact on improving the circularity of the P cycle. This presentation will introduce the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center, a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Science and Technology Center (STC). STEPS is a convergence research center that addresses the complex challenges in phosphorus sustainability by integrating disciplinary contributions across the physical, life, social, and economic sciences. STEPS draws from atomic and molecular insights (e.g., chemistry, materials research, biochemistry, bioengineering) to develop materials and technologies that are deployed at the human scale (e.g., environmental and agricultural engineering, plant biology, crop and soil sciences) while considering supply-chain logistics, life cycle, and other regional and global issues (e.g., ecology, economics, sociology, policy). STEPS further leverages disciplinary contributions that transcend length scales and serve as integration mechanisms within the Center (e.g., science of team science, data science). Some specific research successes from the STEPS Year 1-3 research portfolio will be highlighted.

磷（P）是细胞结构（如DNA）和过程（如能量传递）的关键组成部分，并且作为肥料中的关键养分支撑着食物系统的生产力。然而，在磷的可用性、应用、管理以及处置或再利用方面存在诸多挑战：磷来源于不可再生的磷矿石，在食物系统中的利用效率低下，并且在陆地系统（如土壤和淡水来源）中积累，后者导致有害藻类水华和海洋生物的缺氧现象。如果没有干预，随着世界人口的持续增长，涉及磷的环境、经济和可持续性问题将加剧。事实上，我们需要在发现和开发控制、回收、再利用和管理磷的材料、技术和策略方面进行范式转变，以便这些解决方案能够对改善磷循环的循环性产生变革性影响。本次演讲将介绍磷可持续性科学与技术（Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability，简称STEPS）中心，这是一个由美国国家科学基金会（U.S. National Science Foundation，简称NSF）支持的科学与技术中心（Science and Technology Center，简称STC）。STEPS是一个汇聚研究中心，通过整合物理、生命、社会和经济科学等学科的贡献，应对磷可持续性方面的复杂挑战。STEPS从原子和分子层面的见解（例如化学、材料研究、生物化学、生物工程）出发，开发在人类尺度上部署的材料和技术（例如环境和农业工程、植物生物学、作物和土壤科学），同时考虑供应链物流、生命周期以及其他区域和全球问题（例如生态学、经济学、社会学、政策）。STEPS进一步利用超越尺度的学科贡献，并将其作为中心内的整合机制（例如团队科学的科学、数据科学）。雅各布·琼斯博士将重点介绍STEPS在第1至3年研究组合中的一些具体研究成果。

【BIOGRAPHY】

Dr. Jacob Jones is the Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at NC State University, Director and Principal Investigator of the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center (www.steps-center.org, an NSF STC), and Director and Principal Investigator of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (www.rtnn.org, an NSF NNCI site). Jones received his PhD from Purdue University in 2004, after which he completed an international postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of MSE at the University of Florida from 2006-2013 and joined NC State in 2013. Jones’ research interests involve developing a fundamental understanding of inorganic materials during their synthesis and use, e.g. through the use of in situ synchrotron X-ray scattering experiments. Jones has published over 300 papers (h-index=68, GoogleScholar) on these topics. Jones is a Fellow of the IEEE Society and the American Ceramic Society and has received numerous awards for his research and education activities, including an NSF CAREER award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama, the NC State College of Engineering George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, and the 2025 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by NC State and the university’s Board of Trustees.

雅各布·琼斯博士（Dr. Jacob Jones）是北卡罗来纳州立大学（NC State University）材料科学与工程（Materials Science and Engineering，简称MSE）专业的神户制钢所杰出教授，磷可持续性科学与技术（STEPS）中心（www.steps-center.org，一个NSF STC）主任兼首席研究员，以及研究三角纳米技术网络（www.rtnn.org，一个NSF NNCI站点）主任兼首席研究员。琼斯于2004年在普渡大学获得博士学位，之后在澳大利亚悉尼新南威尔士大学完成了由美国国家科学基金会资助的国际博士后研究。2006年至2013年，他在佛罗里达大学材料科学与工程系担任助理教授和副教授，并于2013年加入北卡罗来纳州立大学。琼斯的研究兴趣涉及在无机材料的合成和使用过程中开发对其的基本理解，例如通过原位同步辐射X射线散射实验。琼斯在这些主题上发表了300多篇论文（h指数=68，谷歌学术），他是电气和电子工程师协会（IEEE Society）和美国陶瓷学会的会士，并因其研究和教育活动获得了众多奖项，包括NSF职业奖、北卡罗来纳州立大学工程学院乔治·H·布利斯杰出本科导师奖以及2025年亚历山大·卡尔·霍拉迪卓越奖章，这是北卡罗来纳州立大学及其董事会授予的最高荣誉。

【主持人】

Martin Thuo

北卡罗来纳州立大学

【研讨嘉宾】

Miso Kim

成均馆大学

张海霞

北京大学