Bing Xu is an Associate Professor in Finance at the Heriot-Watt University. She holds a MA (Hons) in Business Studies and Accounting and a PhD in Management both from the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she worked at the Robert Gordon University as a Lecturer in Finance.

Bing’s research concerns banking and finance, energy economics, applied energy, Data Envelopment Analysis and Multi-criteria Decision Making Analysis. She has also worked on a number of external funded research projects on the design of multidimensional frameworks for performance evaluation of competing energy strategies, and collaborated with a wide range of industrial and government partners (e.g., E-harbours; Efficient Sustainable Energy Management with the Abattoir and Dairy industries in Scotland). Currently, Bing is working on an EPSRC funded project on low carbon aviation biofuel through integration of novel technologies for co-valorisation of CO2 and biomass (EP/N009924/1), and she is the work package 5 leader on Energy Policy and Public Engagement.

Bing has published in journals such as Applied Energy, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice and Expert Systems with Applications, Applied Economics, Economics Letter, Journal of Financial Stability, International Review of Financial Analysis, among others. Bing is interested in supervising PhD students in banking, energy economics and decision making analysis.