Updated 2025/07/04
2024 – present Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Collaboration advisor: Taikan Oki, The University of Tokyo
2022 – 2024 Project researcher (Postdoc), River and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Faculty Advisor: Taikan Oki, Professor of River Engineering
Faculty Co-Advisor: Naota Hanasaki, Senior Researcher at National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
2016 – 2022 Ph.D. in Ecology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Faculty Advisor: Hui Lu, Professor of Earth System Science
Faculty Co-Advisor: Kun Yang, Professor of Earth System Science
Ph.D. Dissertation: Development and Application of Remote Sensing-based Proxies of Land-Atmosphere Coupling Strength
2018 – 2019 Visiting Fellow in Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A.
Faculty Advisor: Kaighin A. McColl, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Funding: State Scholarship Fund Granted by China Scholarship Council
2012 - 2016 B.S. in Applied Meteorology, College of Resources and Environment, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Rank: 1/20 (GPA: 3.97/4.0), Graduated with Honor
Undergraduate Thesis: Impacts of Soil Moisture on Precipitation Simulation in WRF model over Tibetan Plateau (Honored)
Short-term
2024.08-2024.10 Visiting Scientist at Utrecht University, hosted by Dr. Edwin Sutanudjaja
Fundings (Only those I (co-)drafted the proposal are listed)
Taikan Oki, Qing He, Reed Maxwell, Developing Global Groundwater Tools for A More Sustainable Water Future, UTokyo-Princeton Strategic Partnership Grant Collaborative Research, USD 102k, 2025.09.01 – 2028.08.31
Taikan Oki, Qing He, Hui Lu, Kun Yang, Combined Model and Data-Driven Approach to Reveal Groundwater Decline Trend and Its Driving Factors Over Northern China Plain, JSPS-NSFC Bilateral Programs (Joint Research), JPY 7.2M by JSPS and NSFC, 2025.04.01 – 2027.12.31
Qing He and Taikan Oki and, Development of a coupled H08-MODFLOW model for a better understanding of human-water feedbacks, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, JSPS, JPY 2.4M, 2024,04.01 - 2026.03.31
Hui Lu, Qing He, and Kun Yang, Optimization of Soil Parameters in Land Surface Models Based on Remote Sensing-Derived Land–Atmosphere Coupling Indices, NSFC, CNY 600k, 2024.01.01 - 2027.12.31
Qing He, Start-up Funding for Female Researchers, The University of Tokyo, JPY 200k for FY2023
Scholarships
National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program for College Student, China Agricultural University, ~$2000, 2013
Scholarship for Excellent College Student, China Agricultural University, ~$2400 in total, 2013-2015
National Scholarship for Excellent College Student, Ministry of Education, ~$1000, 2015
Scholarship for Excellent Public Service, 3rd Prize, Tsinghua University, ~$200, 2017
Visiting Scholarship granted by China Scholarship Council, $18500 over 1 year, 2018
Scholarship for Excellence and Incorporation granted by Jintan Government, $800, 2020
Awards
Excellent Author Award, Wiley Open Science Excellent Author Program, April- June, 2024
Excellent Author Award, Wiley Open Science Excellent Author Program, April- June, 2023
Honored Awards for Excellent Leadership in Senior Class Committee, China Agricultural University, 2015
Outstanding Achievement Award for Capital College Students Summer Internship, Beijing, 2013
Second Prize Award in College Student Competition of Experimental Physics, Beijing, 2013
Excellent Student Awards for China Agricultural University, 2013-2014
OS: Linux/Unix, Windows, MacOS
Programming Languages: MATLAB, NCL, Fortran, Python
Modeling: Noah-MP Land Surface Model, MODFLOW6 Groundwater Model, and H08 Global Hydrological Model with Human Activities
Lecturer for "JSPS Science Dialogue", Japan Sociey for Promotion of Science
"Developing Global Tools for A Better Water Future", Dec 5th, 2024, Kawagoe Girls' High School, Saitama, Japan (40 students, 11th Grade)
Mentor for Hydrosphere Science Program, The University of Tokyo
My mentee, Xin Huang, has presented our work "Potential of Using SMAP L3/L4 Data to Detect Irrigation Signals over Continental United States"to the SMAP Science Team Telecon meeting (organized by NASA's JPL laboratory, biweekly), and received positive feedbacks from the scientists there (September, 2024)
My mentee, Wulan Seizarwati, has won the "Best Poster Award" (3/30), for her excellent presentation on our project "Reconstructing Soil Drainage Process Using Combined SMAP Morning and Afternoon Data" (July, 2023)
Teaching Assistant, Tsinghua University
Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surface, 2019, 15 graduate students
Workshops
The 9th GEWEX Early Career Workshop (invited), Hokkaido, Japan, July 4-6, 2024. Website: https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gewex-osc2024/ecr/workshop/
The first GEWEX Groundwater Workshop, Hokkaido, Japan, 2024. Website: https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gewex-osc2024/program/groundwater-workshop/
“Tsinghua-MIT Joint Workshop on Global Monitoring of the Water Cycle Using New Microwave Space-Born Instruments”. Jointly Convened by Dr. Hui Lu and Dr. Dara Entekhabi, Beijing, 2016, 2018, and 2019.
“Harvard Crimson Climate workshop”, Cambridge, MA, 2019