Guangcan Su

Guangcan Su is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Integrated Assessment of Data Centers cohort at the University of Notre Dame. His research combines life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, geospatial modeling, and artificial intelligence to evaluate the environmental and economic implications of emerging energy and infrastructure systems. At Notre Dame, he will investigate how data center growth affects electricity demand, water use, carbon emissions, and communities across Indiana and the Midwest to support more informed and equitable infrastructure decisions.

Before joining Notre Dame, Guangcan was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University, where he led sustainability assessments of direct air capture and carbon dioxide conversion technologies. His work has appeared in leading journals, including Nature Energy, Nature Synthesis, and Energy & Environmental Science. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Malaya, where his research focused on waste valorization, bioenergy, and carbon-negative systems.