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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)

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

2023     DOE Early Career Award, U.S. Department of Energy

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2022     Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellowship, University of Houston

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2021     Finalist of Lawrence Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

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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

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2017     Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (top ~500 worldwide from > 500,000), China Scholarship Council

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2016     Jacob Goldhaber Travel Award, UMCP

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2016     Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award (top 2% of graduate assistants), UMCP

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2016     Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award, ESSIC/UMCP

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2015     AGU Fall Meeting Travel Grant, AGU

Services

2023-present       Associate Editor, Journal of Climate

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2021                     Panelist, NASA ROSES Panel review

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2021-present       Proposal reviewer for U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), DOE Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR),  Austrian Science Fund.

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2021-2025 (expected)   Committee Member of Cloud Measurements and Cloud modeling, ARM User Executive Committee, U.S. Department of Energy

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2021-2023            Board MemberChinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

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2021-2024            Session Chair, "Aerosol-cloud interactions in warm clouds" in AMS symposium on Aerosol - Cloud - Climate Interactions, American Meteorological Society​

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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

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2014-2016           Committee Member, Atmospheric Science Section, American Geophysical Union

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