Shanglei Chai is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Business School of Shandong Normal University. She is the principal investigator of a key project funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China and has been awarded the title of academic leader by the Youth Innovation Team of Shandong Normal University. With decades of experience, she has been actively engaged in research areas including climate finance, energy transition, green finance, and risk management. She is a member of the Data Science and Knowledge System Engineering Professional Committee of the Chinese System Engineering Society, and is a member of the International Energy Transition Research Society and the Climate Finance Research Society. She is a Young Editorial Board Member of several academic journals, such as Regional Sustainability and Carbon Footprint and serves as a reviewer for over ten energy and finance journals, such as Energy Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Research in International Business and Finance, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Finance Research Letters, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, etc. She has published more than 30 papers in high-quality peer-reviewed journals indexed in SCI/SSCI, such as Energy Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Research in International Business and Finance, Applied Energy, Annals of Operations Research, etc.