I am Wei-Ting Hsiao (蕭維廷), a research group leader of Weather-Climate Interaction at the Department of Climate Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M). 

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My research interest covers tropical meteorology and climate change. I am particularly interested in multi-scale interactions in the tropical atmosphere, on how climate-scale physical constraints control the statistical property of weather-scale processes, or the other way around.

Themes of my previous works include: 

• cloud-radiative feedbacks in tropical intraseasonal variability and in mesoscale convection;

• 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.

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. Previosuly, I was a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Allison Wing at EOAS, Florida State University on observed convective organization and radiative effects using data from the ORCESTRA/PICCOLO field campaign.

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.