I am Wei-Ting Hsiao (蕭維廷), a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Allison Wing at EOAS, Florida State University on observed convective organization and radiative effects using data from the PICCOLO - ORCHESTRA field campaign.

I received my Ph.D. degree at the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University advised by Dr. Eric Maloney, and my M.S. degree at the same institution. My B.S. degree is received from Atmospheric Sciences at National Taiwan University at Taipei, Taiwan, where I was born and raised. 

My research interest covers tropical meteorology and climate change, and I like to think about multi-scale interactions in the tropical atmosphere. Themes of my previous works include: 

• cloud-radiative feedbacks in tropical intraseasonal variability and the MJO;

• tropical mesoscale convective organization and associated cloud-radiative feedbacks; 

• tropical intraseasonal variability in a changing climate; 

• tropical cloud-radiative feedbacks in response to extratropical forcings on decadal timescales; 

• how tropical variability affects S2S precipitation forecast skills in an operational weather model.

Passionate about education, I became a teaching assistant of an undergraduate class, the Science of Climate Change, where I assisted in developing course content and gave lectures. I was also involved in various volunteered teaching activities for the K-12 students in Taiwan, including those for the underprivileged.

In my spare time, I enjoy cooking, reading, writing, and listening to indie music. In particular, I have a taste for shoegaze, math rock, and Mandarin/Taiwanese folk rock.