"With intellectual pleasure, truth becomes clearer and clearer"
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Education
Professional Experience
2012 - 2018
University of Maryland,
College Park, U.S.
Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Advisor: Profs. Zhanqing Li & Daniel Rosenfeld
2023 - present
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, U.S
Assistant Professor
2008 - 2012
Nanjing University of Information, Science, and Technology (former Nanjing Institute of Meteorology),
Nanjing, China
B.S. in Atmospheric Science
2021 - 2023
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, and NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, U.S
Visiting Research Scholar (2023 - 2024)
Associate Research Scholar (2021 - 2023)
2018 - 2021
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center,
University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.
Assistant Research Scientist (2020 - 2021)
Postdoctoral Scholar (2018 - 2020)
2013 - 2014
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, Isreal
Visiting Student
Awards and Honors
2025 Presidential Circle Award, University of Houston
2023 DOE Early Career Award, U.S. Department of Energy (top 2 university awardees in the DOE Biology and Environmental Research Division)
2022 Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellowship, University of Houston
2021 Finalist of Lawrence Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
2019 Yuxiang Young Scholar Award (top 5 among Chinese earth scientists within five years of obtaining Ph.D.), Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (COAA)
2017 Travel support for Nanjing University's Young Scientist Forum, Nanjing University
2017 NASA travel support for ACAM conference, NASA Langley Research Center
2017 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, UMCP
2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (top ~500 worldwide from > 500,000), China Scholarship Council
2016 Jacob Goldhaber Travel Award, UMCP
2016 Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award (top 2% of graduate assistants), UMCP
2016 Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award, ESSIC/UMCP
2015 AGU Fall Meeting Travel Grant, AGU
Services
2023-present Associate Editor, Journal of Climate
2021 Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel review
2021-present Proposal reviewer for U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), DOE Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR), Austrian Science Fund.
2021-2025 Committee Member of Cloud Measurements and Cloud modeling, ARM User Executive Committee, U.S. Department of Energy
2021-2023 Board Member, Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
2021-2024 Session Chair, "Aerosol-cloud interactions in warm clouds" in AMS symposium on Aerosol - Cloud - Climate Interactions, American Meteorological Society
2016-present Journal Peer-reviewer for: Nat. Geoscience; Nat. Communication; J. Clim; Geophy. Res. Lett; Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems; J. Atmos. Sci.; Atmos. Chem. Phys; Remote Sens. of Environment; JGR-Atmos; Nat. Sci. Rep; Remote Sens.; Adv. Atmos. Sci
2014-2016 Committee Member, Atmospheric Science Section, American Geophysical Union