Yuanhang Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. She is broadly interested in how large, complex systems coordinate action amid crisis and transformation, with a focus on the institutional and relational factors that influence their capacity to do so. Her dissertation investigates the role of supply chain structures in shaping automakers’ ability to re-coordinate during crises in the electic vehicle (EV) transition, across diverse institutional and cultural contexts.
Her other research examines comparative poverty governance and industrial development in solar manufacturing.