Resume

Education

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

2021- present

Ph. D.

Thesis: Land management for ecosystem resilience

Advisors: Ana Bastos, Sönke Zaehle, Christiane Schmullius

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ETH Zurich

2019-2021

MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Science

Thesis: Assessment of Atmospheric Feedbacks

from Biomass Heat Storage

Advisors: Ronny Meier, Edouard Davin, Sonia Seneviratne

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Nanjing University

2015-2019

B.S. in Physical Geography

Publication

Xiao, C., Zaehle, S., Sitch, S., Duveiller, G., Pabon-Moreno, D.E., Walker, A.P., Knauer, J., Maignan, F., Schmullius, C., Bastos, A.: Deforestation increases vegetation vulnerability to drought across biomes, under review in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GB008378, 2025

Xiao, C., Zaehle, S., Yang, H., Wigneron, J.-P., Schmullius, C. and Bastos, A.: Land cover and management effects on ecosystem resistance to drought stress, Earth System Dynamics (Highlight paper), https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1211-2023, 2023.

Conference Presentations

2024: AGU2024 eLightning Oral

Substantial Land Cover Effects on Ecosystem Resistance Estimated from Observations and Vegetation Models

2023: EGU2023 Oral

Land-cover and land-management modulation of ecosystem resistance to drought stress

2022: ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022

Land-cover modulation of ecosystem resistance to drought stress

2018: AGU/CAS JING Meeting on PM2.5

Recent wind decline in China, its possible cause and environmental effects

Other Scholarly Works

2023: ESA success story: SMOS data reveal ecosystems' resistance to drought

2019: National College Student Training Program for Research Innovation, Project leader

2018: 4th Geographical Science Competition of China, First Prize

2018: Mitacs GLOBALINK RESEARCH INTERNSHIP, Concordia University, Montreal

Workshops and Summer Schools

2024: Land Use and Ecosystem Change, KIT-Alpin

2023: Interdisciplinary summer school on forest ecosystems, COST Action, Slovenian Forestry Institute 

2020: Scientific Visualization using Python 2020, C2SM, ETH Zurich

2019: Google Earth Engine workshop 2019, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, CAS

2018: Regional Climate Models for Advanced Applications in Ecology, Hydrology and Wind Resources Training

2018: IEEE GRSS Summer School on Modeling & the 7th Theory and Method of Remote Sensing Data Retrieval Summer School, BNU & IEEE GRSS