Dr Siyi Kan

siyi.kan@ouce.ox.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Siyi Kan is a Researcher in Food Systems Modelling at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford. She works with Dr Marco Springmann on the EPIC-SHIFT project, developing trajectories of food system transition towards healthier and more sustainable diets, and modelling their environmental, health, and economic implications.

Prior to joining Oxford, Siyi completed her PhD in Natural Sciences at Peking University, China, in 2022 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College London, United Kingdom, and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Leibniz Association, Germany. Her research focuses on the impacts of agriculture, mining and infrastructure development on global land ecosystems (including land use change, biodiversity loss and carbon emissions), and on how these impacts are transmitted through international supply chains. She is also interested in identifying pathways to align sectoral transitions with broader social and environmental sustainability goals.

Siyi has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals, such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature Communications, and One Earth, among others. Her work has been featured by international sustainability organisations such as the World Resources Institute and the Rainforest Alliance, and highlighted by major scientific publishers and media outlets including Nature, Cell, Scientific American, The Conversation, and ScienceDaily.

Publications

Kan, S. et al. (2026) “Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand.”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(9), p. e2521183123.

Kan, S. et al. (2025) “Identifying global hotspots of agricultural expansion into non-forest ecosystems”, Nature Communications, 16(1), pp. 10739–10739.

Dai, K. et al. (2024) “Impact of Arable Land Abandonment on Crop Production Losses in Ukraine During the Armed Conflict”, Remote Sensing, 16(22), p. 4207.

Peng, H. et al. (2024) “Emission accounting and drivers in South American countries”, Applied Energy, 358, p. 122528.

Kan, S., Chen, B. and Chen, G. (2023) “Globalization of forest land use: Increasing threats on climate-vulnerable regions”, Land Use Policy, 132, p. 106798.

Chen, B. et al. (2023) “Beyond wells: Towards demand-side perspective to manage global methane emissions from oil and gas production”, Resources Conservation and Recycling, 193, p. 106971.

Kan, S. et al. (2023) “Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains”, One Earth, 6(1), pp. 55–65.

Kan, S. et al. (2021) “China’s forest land use change in the globalized world economy: Foreign trade and unequal household consumption”, Land Use Policy, 103, p. 105324.

Jiang, L. et al. (2020) “Changes in agricultural land requirements for food provision in China 2003–2011: A comparison between urban and rural residents”, The Science of The Total Environment, 725, p. 138293.

Kan, S. et al. (2020) “An extended overview of natural gas use embodied in world economy and supply chains: Policy implications from a time series analysis”, Energy Policy, 137, p. 111068.