Education 

01/2017  Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China 

                   Dissertation: Evolution and forcing mechanisms of El Niño over the past 21,000 years

06/2011  B.Sc., College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Work Experience

06/2017 - to date   Researcher, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

04/2020 - 12/2021   Postdoc Fellow, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

09/2013 - 08/2015  Visiting Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA

Honors, Awards and Grants

2022 Swedish Research Council VR starting grant (4m SEK; PI)

2022 Crafoord foundation research project (600k SEK; PI)

2020 FORMAS mobility grant for early-career researchers (4.4m SEK; PI)

2020 Lund University Faculty of Science travel grant (13.5k SEK)

2019  Research grant (short project) from MERGE (250k SEK; PI)

2019  Travel grant from Fysiografen (10k SEK)

2016  Outstanding graduate student of Peking University

2013  China Scholarship Council Fellowship (2-year) for overseas study 

2012  Merit student of Peking University  

2011  Outstanding undergraduate student of Shandong Province

Presentations (selected)

2023 Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Impacts of large‐scale Sahara solar farms on global climate and terrestrial ecosystems. (Invited)

2023 Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Transient simulations of El Niño-Southern Oscillation since the Last Glacial Maximum (Invited)

2023 China-US-EU workshop on Carbon cycle in the climate vulnerable regions, Nanjing, China. Impacts of large‐scale Sahara solar farms on global climate and terrestrial ecosystems. (Invited)

2023 GDOU, Zhanjiang, China. Impacts of large‐scale Sahara solar farms on global climate and terrestrial ecosystems. (Invited)

2023 SCSIO, CAS, Guangzhou, China. Paleo El Niño-Southern Oscillation over the last 300,000 years. (Invited)

2023 SUSTech, Shenzhen, China. Paleo El Niño-Southern Oscillation over the last 300,000 years. (Invited)

2023 USA-China-EU paleoclimate seminars. Transient simulations of El Niño-Southern Oscillation over the last 300,000 years (Invited/Virtual)

2022 Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. Impacts of large‐scale Sahara solar farms on global climate, terrestrial ecosystems and solar potential. (Invited)

2022 Alfred Wegener Institute. Orbital modulation of ENSO variability over the last 300 ka. (Invited/Virtual)

2022 EGU general assembly, Vienna, Austria. Impacts of large-scale Sahara solar farms on global climate, vegetation cover and solar potential. (Virtual)

2022 1st Swedish Climate Symposium, Nörrköping, Sweden. Impacts of large-scale Sahara solar farms on global climate, vegetation cover and solar potential. (Oral)

2021 AGU general assembly, New Orleans, LA, USA. Impacts of Large-Scale Sahara Photovoltaic Solar Farms on Global Climate and Vegetation Cover. (Virtual)

2021 Lund University 1st Sustainability Forum. The impacts of massive solar farms in the Sahara Desert on global climate and terrestrial ecosystem. (Invited/Virtual)

2021 Departmental seminar of Uppsala University. Impacts of large‐scale Sahara solar farms on global climate and vegetation cover. (Invited/Virtual)

2021 Alan Turing Institute. Impacts of large‐scale Sahara solar farms on global climate and vegetation cover. (Invited; Canceled due to Covid)

2020 EGU general assembly, Vienna, Austria. Prominent precession-band variance in El Niño-Southern Oscillation Intensity over the last 300,000 years. (Virtual)

2019 Departmental seminar of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Climate Impact on Terrestrial Vegetation Dynamics and Carbon Cycle: Implications from Paleoecology Simulations. (Invited)

2019  RA5 public seminar, Stockholm, Sweden. Examining El Niño in the past: towards a data-model consensus. (Invited)

2019  STINT workshop, Öland, Sweden. Climate impact on vegetation and terrestrial carbon: implications from paleoecology simulations. (Invited)

2019  EGU general assembly, Vienna, Austria. Vegetation migration and terrestrial carbon variation in past warm and cold climates. (Poster)

2018  GRASS workshop, Helsinki, Finland. Simulating the mid-Holocene Green Sahara using the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. (Invited)

2018  EGU general assembly, Vienna, Austria. Simulating the mid-Holocene Green Sahara. (Poster)

2018  PalMod conference, Vienna, Austria. Orbital modulation of ENSO seasonal phase locking. (Oral)

2017  PMIP4 conference, Stockholm, Sweden. Orbital modulation of ENSO seasonal phase locking. (Oral)

2017  PAGES Open Science Meeting, Zaragoza, Spain. Evolution and forcing mechanisms of ENSO over the last 300,000 years. (Oral)

2016  COAA international conference, Beijing, China. Evolution and forcing mechanisms of ENSO over the last 300,000 years in CCSM3. (Oral)

2015  Climate Dynamics of ENSO Prediction Workshop, Qingdao, China. Orbital forcing mechanisms of ENSO in CCSM3. (Poster)

2015  UW-Madison Annual AOSS Community Poster Reception, Madison, WI, USA. Abrupt intensification of ENSO forced by deglacial icesheet retreat in CCSM3. (Poster)

2014  AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. Abrupt intensification of ENSO forced by deglacial ice-sheet retreat in CCSM3. (Poster)

2014  CESM workshop, Breckenridge, CO, USA. Abrupt intensification of ENSO forced by deglacial ice-sheet retreat. (Oral) 

Review Experience

Science Advances, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Journal of Climate, Geology, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Research Letters, Climate Dynamics, Earth System Dynamics, Scientific Reports, Climate of the Past, Geoscience Letters, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Atmosphere, Sustainability, Climate, Quaternary

IPCC WGI AR6 Expert Review

External reviewer of PhD thesis of Peking University